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A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS IN
THE LIBRARIES OF THE UNIVERSITY
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
This Catalogue is the result of the conviction that the possession of
manuscripts of even a moderate antiquity carries with it the responsibility of
publishing some account of them for the use of scholars. It has also been
our belief that a descriptive catalogue will make the manuscripts now in the
University’s possession more useful to the departments to which they relate,
and that the only way to build up a notable collection of manuscripts in the
University is to make the most of what we have.
Not all indeed that the University now possesses in the way of manu-
scripts is here included. The Greek papyri in Haskell Oriental Museum we
have been obliged to reserve for separate treatment, although the inclusion
of those texts from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, some of them unpub-
lished, would have enriched this volume. The East Indian and other valuable
oriental manuscripts belonging to Haskell Museum we have left untouched.
Since the completion of our work upon this Catalogue, too, new collections
including valuable autograph letters have been given to the University
by Mr. Edward B. Butler, Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, Mrs. Erskine M.
Phelps, and Mrs. Emma B. Hodge. Such collections of letters and docu-
ments evidently call for a special catalogue. Further, the mass of manu-
script fragments from bindings or still in bindings present a large field for
the manuscript cataloguer. We have made a beginning with these, but
such pieces are seldom of value, and while a few of the more significant ones
are described in the present volume, we have not as yet felt justified in
asking the University’s permission to destroy dozens of fine old bindings
of unquestioned interest in the history of book-making, in the effort to
detach parchment fragments of doubtful value. Finally, it is more than
probable that as the cataloguing of the University’s printed books goes on,
some manuscripts long since in its possession will come to hand; but while we
covet these for our Catalogue, and have made such search for them as we
could, it has seemed wiser to proceed with those we have than to wait for an
end which will never come, since the University will never cease to acquire
manuscripts.
Of the manuscripts treated in this Catalogue, few have been secured
through special purchase. Nearly all have come to the University with
large collections of printed books. The libraries of Hengstenberg, acquired
in 1869-70, George B. Ide (1873-74), the American Bible Union (1885-86),
and the Old University of Chicago (1891) brought some manuscripts with
them. But the great majority of our manuscripts we owe to the purchase
in 1891 of the Berlin Collection. A concise list of these followed the Berlin
Collection to Chicago, and while not all the manuscripts there reported have
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come into our hands, we have found some others not listed there but very
probably from the same source, and the eight missing ones may yet be found
as the cataloguing of the great collection approaches completion. The Ovid
manuscript (no. 99) came to our attention when this Catalogue was already
in type, and is therefore treated in an Appendix.
The manuscripts which formed part of the Berlin Collection at the time
of its acquisition by the University had been gathered from various sources,
most of which it is no longer possible to identify. In the case of a few
codices, however, a definite statement of origin and early history can be
made. The Glycas, Georgius Hamartolus, and De Rancé manuscripts dis-
play the arms of Pius VI, in whose time and probably for whose library three
of them were written. Nos. 14 and 99 have on their covers somewhat
similar arms, perhaps those of Cardinal Braschi before he became Pius VI.
Of these six manuscripts, three (nos. 14, 65, 99) with five others (nos. 1, 5, 11,
51, 52) have a rectangular label, numbered in roman. Perhaps this early label
was that of Pius VI’s collection. Over it in some cases has been pasted the
oval label which appears on nos. 2, 6, 12, 14, 17, 18, 39, 47, 54, 63, 65, and
99. It is at least clear that all the manuscripts bearing these labels have
come with the Berlin Purchase, whether included in its list or not, and the
labels give us some hint of the probable process of accretion by which the
principal element in that collection of manuscripts developed. It is not
indeed impossible that the nineteen manuscripts of the three groups formed
part of that private papal collection of which Cardinal Braschi’s two manu-
scripts were the nucleus. At all events they became combined with a group
of his manuscripts and were catalogued together before they came into the
possession of the Calvary Brothers in Berlin. Other similar manuscript
relationships, in so far as we have observed them, we have indicated by
cross-references in the descriptions that follow. Thus the Lucan and the
Boccaccio (nos. 33, 57) are bound and lettered alike; the Albertus, the
Aristotele, and the Leo (nos. 2, 5, 30) are lettered alike on the back; the
Diodorus and the Ovid (nos. 14, 99), are bound and lettered alike, etc.
Every manuscript is a human document and presents an individual
history. The manuscript of Gerard’s Distinctiones (no. 22) states that it
was copied from his original at Siena by an Augustinian named Martucius,
who began the task in 1466, when he was Magister Studentium, ‘at a time
of great persecution and trial,’ and completed it on September 7, 1468,
“at a time of great tranquillity and peace.” Other subscriptions report its
subsequent fortunes. It remained at the Convent of Prato until a visitor
from Naples took possession of it and carried it off to Naples. Brother
Augustinus of Prato happened to visit Naples some time after, and to him
the Neopolitan, ‘‘conscientia forte motus,” returned the manuscript. On
June 19, 1520, Augustinus recorded these facts in the recovered manuscript,
and expressed the pious intention of examining the whole of it, and at his
death bequeathing it to his convent at Prato. But a further subscription,
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dated October 24, 1522, shows that two years later the manuscript passed
into the hands of Brother Herennius, who had given Augustinus in exchange
for it the Epistles of Paul, and writings of Thomas of Argentina and Gregory
of Ariminum, well-known Augustinian authorities. Beyond this point the
movements of the manuscript are obscure, but this sketch of its fortunes
for half a century gives curious glimpses of contemporary life. Other
manuscripts are not less quaintly interesting, and will invite closer study,
textual or historical, from the departments to which they relate.
This Catalogue is published in connection with the dedication of the
Harper Memorial Library, June 11, 1912. Our thanks are due to Karl
Pietsch, James Westfall Thompson, Charles Henry Beeson, Chester Nathan
Gould, and Tiemen de Vries, members of the University faculties, for many
helpful suggestions on various manuscripts, upon which we sought their
expert opinions. To the President of the University, the Director of the
Libraries, and the Director of the Press, we are especially indebted for the
interest they have shown in the publication of the Catalogue at this time,
when, with the opening of the Harper Memorial Library, the University’s
manuscripts are at last transferred to secure and permanent quarters in the
Manuscript Room.
May, 1912
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LATIN
Alberti, De Re Aedificatoria
Albertus Magnus, De Homine .
Albertus Theotonicus, Robertus Anglious; etal., Practices
Sextius Amarcius Gallus, De Virtutibus Palen, ete.
Aristoteles, De Moribus ad Nicomachum
Baldus de Perusio, Consilia de Iure
Benedictus XIV, Iustitie et Pacis
. Benedictus de Perusio, οὐ al., Rubricae
. Bernardus Clarevalensis, De Consideratione
. Blasius de Parma, Questiones super Libro M Dineuvroramn:.
. Calderinus, Commentaria in Martialem
. Sextius Clodius, et al., Fasti, etc. ,
. Columna, Baronius, De Monarchia Siciliae
. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca :
. Diogenes Laertius, De Vita et Moribus Phslosonhortn
. Epistola Conventus Carthusiensis Erffordt
. Eusebius, Chronica
. Eusebius, Historia aa:
. Evangeliorum Quattuor Harmonia
. Horatius Feltrius, Conatus trritt Ossunae duties: etc .
. Fides Caietana
. Girardus de Senis, Distineliones ἈΠ τς
. Guido de Monte Rotherii, Tractatus, etc. .
. Hieronymus, Commentaria in Amos
. Hieronymus, Explanationes in Ysayam
. Horae .
. Horatius, Opera :
. Isidorus Hispalensis, Contra I ΝΕ
. Iuvenal, Satirae :
. Leo Magnus, Sermones . :
. Leonardus Aretinus, De Primo Bello Purieo :
. Leonardus Aretinus, e¢ al., Opuscula varia.
. Lucanus, Pharsalia
. Petrus Veronensis, Rubricae
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35. Poggius, Leonardus, Guarinus, Opuscula . 36
36. Receptarium de Medicinis 37
37. Antonius de Raho, In Rubricas Ἑρζωΐο Μ atrimonio 37
38. 2 Reg. 19:87—22: 18 : 38
39. Rubricae De Accusationibus, etc. 39
40. Rubricae, Libellz, ete. 41
41. Sebastianus Neapolitanus, Declonaiones de Regno Sieiline . 42
42. Seneca (Pseudo-), De Quatuor Virtutibus, etc. 43
43. Servetus, De Trinitatis Erroribus 44
44. Wachter, Elucidarius Cabalisticus . 44
GREEK
45. (Gr. 1.) Basilius Magnus, ssi Athanasius, Vita δ.
Antonit : ; a a A δὰ τῷ. Se AO
46. (Gr. 2.) Evangelia Graeca : 49
47. (Gr. 3.) Georgius Hamartolus, Chronicon : 51
48. (Gr. 4.) Michael Glycas, Epistolae, Vol. I 52
49. (Gr. 5.) Michael Glycas, Epistolae, Vol. II 54
50. (Gr. 6.) Lectionarium Epistolarum . i 55
51. (Gr. 7.) Nicephoras Gregoras, Historia Busantina 56
52. (Gr. 8. ) Nicetas Serronius, Commentaria in Orationes Gregorii
Nazianzeni . : 59
53. (Gr. 9.) Nicetas Serronius, ‘Nonnus, Commentaria in Ora-
tiones Gregorti Nazianzeni . . 60
54. (Gr. 10.) Proclus, Elementa Phaslogien. 62
55. (Gr. 11.) Procopius, Epitome iad in Hepiaiaucdasn et
Canticum 63
56. (Gr. 12.) Iohannes Tretzes, Epistolae - : 64
ITALIAN
57. (It. 1.) Boccaccio, 11 Fitocolo 67
58. (It. 2.) Costumt e Morte di Papa Aleseansiea VI . 67
59. (It. 3.) Gregorio, Moral : 68
60. (It. 4.) Documents Relating to Missions in China; 68
61. (It. 5.) Ore . 69
62. (It. 6.) Razzi, Vita dé Ρ. Cholene Savonarala 71
SPANISH
63. (Span. 1.) Breviario de Amor : 75
64. (Span. 2.) Alexo Salgado Correa, Mi ἜΝ de ΓΕ . 75
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FRENCH ΤΠ
65. (Fr. 1.) Armand Le B. de Rancé, Examen des Reflexions du
R. P. Mabillon eo ὦ oo Wed oe aS. Ge 28
GERMAN
66. (Ger. 1.) Book of Devotions. eh SE BS Me. ee. S85
67. (Ger. 2.) Hymn, with Inst of Books. » τῷ 87
68. (Ger. 3.) Mathesius, Kirchenordnung, etc. ΜΕ ΤῈ of
Rammelsberg Mines é Ἐς He ὮΙ ἃ 88
ENGLISH
69. (Eng. 1.) John Liptrott, Collectanea Curtosa . . . . 98
70. (Eng. 2.) Joseph Spence, Poems, Latin and English . . . 98
DUTCH
71. (Dutch 1.) Land Leases . oa. Ge 199
72. (Dutch 2.) Narrative and Dovibnente of an Embassy to Morocco 100
ICELANDIC
73. (Icel. 1.) Saga of St. Οἷα . ; a @ oa Jet cas ve 105
HEBREW
74. (Heb. 1.) Tracts on Domestic and Ceremonial Matters . 109
ARABIC
75. (Arab. 1.) TheQuran 2. . . ww ee eee 118
LATER PERSONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPTS
76-98... τ΄, « @ 24 Bs. ae τῇ . . 117-122
APPENDIX I
99. Regulae Grammaticae—Ovidius, De Remedio Amoris . . 123
APPENDIX IT
Letters ascribed to Raphael . . 2. 2. 2. 1... 128
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1. ALBERTI, De Re Aedificatoria.
Paper, ff. 284, cm. 30.5X20.5, single columns, 25-41 lines. 32
quires, of 10, except 3d, 9th, 16th, 19th, 20th, 26th, 28th, 30th (8), and
15th, 18th, 22d, 23d, and 25th (6). Irregular leaf numbering within
quires. Several hands have worked on the manuscript, the several
quires being the work of different scribes, and the hand sometimes
changing in the course of a page. Berlin Purchase no. 34. Probably
century XV.
Label: wanting. The tooled and gilded back of the red leather
binding bears no name, but a rectangular paper label at the bottom is
marked LXIII; cf. nos. 5, 11, 51, 52, 65.
Contents: Leone Alberti (1404-72 [80]), De Re Aedificatoria,
libri X. On the verso of the 3d fly-leaf a later hand has written
Vitruvii Architectura, but over Vitruvii another hand has written
Leonis Alberti.
1. Introduction, ff. la-4a. Incip.: Multas et varias artes que ad
vitam bene et beate agendum faciant.—Hxplic.: nam primi quidem
libri titulus.
2. The treatise De Re Aedificatoria, ten books, ff. 4b-281b. Incip.:
De lineamentis aedificiorum conscripturi optima et elegantissima.—
Explic.: ut digniores multoque elegantiores habeantur. Deo Gratias.
Τέλος.
Lib. 1, ff. 40-28a. Incip.: De lineamentis aedificiorum.
Lib. 2, ff. 28a-53b. Incip.: Opus aedificiorum atque impensam.
Lib. 3, ff. 5380-826. Incip.: Omnis astruendi operis ratio.
Lib. 4, ff. 820-1046. Incip.: Edificia .... esse . . constituta.
Lib. 5, ff. 1046-138a. Incip.: Operum varietates cum intra urbe.
Lib. 6, ff. 1880-162b. Incip.: [Llineamenta et materiam operum.
Lib. 7, ff. 162b-1946. Incip.: Rem edificatoriam constare.
Lib. 8, ff. 194b-218a. Incip.: Ornamenta que operibus adhibeantur.
Lib. 9, ff. 218a-248a. Incip.: Meminisse oportet privatorum edi-
ficiorum.
Lib. 10, ff. 248a-281b. Incip.: Fide operum vitiis emandandis.
There are large plain initials in blue at the beginning of the intro-
duction and of Bk. 1, and spaces have been left for them at the begin-
nings of the other books. At the foot of f. 150) is written Scriptum
Manu Cancellarii Ex(cellen?)tis Regni Siciliae Cancellarii. A cor-
rector’s notes, in a square heavy hand, are found throughout in the
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margins.. F. 221 is blank except for the words satis conscendendi and a
cross covering the recto; the text continues with satis conscendendi on
the following. After this point various scribes have numbered 3 to 10
leaves of their own quires.
2. ALBERTUS Maenus, De Homine.
Paper, ff. 339, cm. 2921.5, single columns, 32-37 lines. 29 quires,
of 12, except the 1st, a prefatory quire unnumbered (3). The quires,
except the first, were numbered 1°-28° at the foot of the last verso, but
some of these have been trimmed away. Occasional marginal rulings.
Ff. 2a-3b and 339b blank. Berlin Purchase. Probably century XV.
Label: Albertus de Homine.—Above, 125 and 101; below, Stipo 3.
Below, an oval label, like that on nos. 6, 12, 14, 17, 18, 39, 47, 54,
63, 65, numbered 101. On the under edges, Alber(tus) de Homine.
Remains of two brass clasps. Binding, blue leather over boards.
Yellow edges. The name-label is like that on nos. 5 and 30.
Contents: Albertus Magnus, De Homine. 252 chapters.
Title, in a hand smaller and probably later than the text: Albertus
de homine, f. 4a. JIncip.: [C]onsequenter transeundum est ad queren-
dum de homine.—Fzplic.: non est intendi sed in substantia continuari.
Ff. 1a-2a supply a gap in cap. 51: Incip.: de anima ubi dicitur
color est.—Explic., f. 2a: sed ut perfectionem visus et visibilis secundum
quod est visibile et secundum quod est visus adactum.
At the top of f. 1, a note in another hand reads: Istud vult esse infra
6. 51 ubi tale signum. A drawing of a face follows. On f. 87a, the same
face appears, with this note: hic deficit quod est scriptum supra in
principio libri per unam cartam cum dimidia. Spaces have been left
for large initials, but these have not been supplied.
Within the first cover, a modern hand has written Albertus Magnus;
and inside the last a price mark in lire is penciled.
The voluminous works of Albertus Magnus (1193-1280), the Doctor
Universalis of the Schoolmen, were first published by Peter Jammy,
at Lyons, in 1651.
3. ALBERTUS THEOTONICUs (TEUTONICUS?), RoBERTUS ANGLICUS,
ET AL., Tractatus Mathematict et Philosophici.
Paper, ff. 68, cm. 29.9X22.1, rough edges, 2 columns, 65 (66),
42-45 lines, in 8 quires, Ist of 4, 2d of 2, 3d and 8th of 12, 4th to 6th of 10,
and 7th of 8. Column rulings in quires 3-8, sometimes on both sides;
quire signatures (quires 4-8), lower right-hand corner of last verso.
Berlin Purchase? Century XV.
Contents: A collection of mathematical and philosophical treatises.
1, Tractatus proportionum alberti theotonici (= teutonici ?) (wrongly
superscribed by a later hand, latitudines formarum, ef. the Explic. f. 4
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(41)a, col. 2): ff. 1-4a (88-41a). Incip.: Proportio communiter accepta
est.—Explic.: corolaria ad quorum illustrationem supersedeo causam
brevitatis et est finis huius deo gratias Amen.
2. Latitudines formarum, ff. 4a, col. 2,—6a (4la—48a). Incip.:
[Qluia latitudines formarum multipliciter variantur—Explic.: occurrere
et ideo transeo etc. deo gratias Amen Amen.
3. Compilatio super tractatu de spera edita a fratre roberto anglico
ordinis praedicatorum qui super totam loycam (=logicam) scripsit
qui fuit magister in theologia postea archiepiscopus cartusiens(is?) et
demum cardinalis (cf. the Explic. f. 180 -- 666), ff. 7-18 (45-56). Prob-
ably Robert Grosseteste (Capito). Incip.: Una scientia est nobilior
alia.—Ezplic.: idem satis declaratus etc. Deo gratias Amen.
4. A collection of notabilia dicta averroys, ff. 19-64 (57-128).
A. From his commentary super primo de anima, ff. 19-28 (57-66).
Incip.: [A]rtes. Incomplete, Explic.: Actiuum et passiuum viden-
tur(?) esse quodammodo opposita. Commento 33.—In the lower
right-hand corner the beginning of the next quire is written: Innuit, etc.
But the next quire begins dicta.
B. From his commentary super 2° metaphisiae ff. 29-52 (77-100).
Incip.: Commentum primum. [Quia] ista scientia perscrutatur. The
colophon at the end of this section, f. 81b, col. 1, makes these dicta
come from Averrhoes super primum et 2™, li. metha®°, quos in commen-
tando intermiscuit. There follow in order the comments on Lib. 3-7.—
Explic.: substantiales generales et . . . . commento 9°.
C. Super libro coligeth ff. 58-64 (122-128). Incip.: [E]t dicimus
quod ars medicinae.—Explic.: ramificate sicut arterie co. ca’.
There are three different hands, one in the Tractatus proportionum
and Latitudines formarum, another in the Compilatio, the third in the
Dicta of Averrhoes. These were probably written as separate manu-
scripts; the watermarks, too, differ. Moreover on the verso of f. 6
(43) at the top is written: Iste carte omnes sunt numero 60. But a
folio numbering inserted before the loss of the quire from the Averrhoes
material, in the same hand throughout binds this heterogeneous ma-
terial together into one volume. It runs from 38-43, 45-66, 77-104,
121-128. Probably between 104 and 121 another quire of similar ma-
terial (Averrhoes) has been lost. Another hand has numbered ff. 3-6
in the lower right-hand corner of the verso (f. 3) or recto (4-6) from
96-99. Marginal notes are inserted sometimes by the writer, sometimes
(in the Compilatio) by another hand. Ff. numbered 101-104, 121
and two ff. after 128 are left entirely blank. On the verso of the
next to the last and the recto of the last ff. a later hand than any in
the manuscript has written a number of Latin verses on various subj-
ects. Space has been left for large initials, but few of these have been
inserted.
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4. Sextius Amarcius Gaius, De Virtutibus Patrum et Posteriorum
Vitiis, libri IV.
Paper, ff. 66, cm. 21X17.5, pages numbered (1, 2) 3-131 (132).
9 quires, of 8, except the 5th (6) and 9th (4), single columns, 23-25 lines.
Both margins ruled. Century XVIII.
Label: Amarcius.—Pasteboard binding. Numbered 2509 on upper
right-hand corner of front cover.
Contents: Title: Sexti Amarcii Galli Libri IV De virtutibus patrum
et posteriorum vitiis, f. la— Below, in a later hand, De opere et codice
ef. Eberti notitia ms. codicum Dresdensium p. 239-241.—Below, in
pencil, Iterum conferatur cum codice ms. m. Apr. 1834.
Incip.: Incipit epistola Sexti Amarcii Galli Piosistrati ad candidum
Theopystium alchimum. Virtutem norma theopysti culte decora, f. 2a
(=p. 3).
Incipit liber primus Sexti Amarcii Epilogus: De virtutibus patrum
et posteriorum vitiis. Quem bis natorum semel ex genitrice fecundo
(f. 3a=p. 5).—Ezplic.: Carmina vocalis justorum concio pangit.
Explicit Liber Amarcii f. 650, p. 130 (181).
The manuscript is concluded with 22 lines, De quatripartita con-
punctione (ff. 65b, 66a=pp. 130, 131). JIncip.: Est quatripartita
cordis conpunctio tota, p. 130.—zplic.: Commemorans saepe talia
sollicitae, p. 131.
On the inner front cover, 208 is written in red pencil. Sections of
lines and portions of words omitted probably because illegible in the
exemplar, are marked by pencil strokes in the margin.
. ARISTOTELES, De Moribus ad Nicomachum.
Paper, heavy and handsome, ff. 79, cm. 28.722, single columns,
33 to 36 lines, 8 quires, of 10, except the 8th (9). Ff. 760-796 blank.
Quire letters A~H and f. numbers 1-5 at lower right-hand corner of
first five rectos of each quire. There is a continuous leaf numbering
from a later hand. Rulings on both sides. Name-label as on nos. 2,
30. Berlin Purchase no. 10. Probably century XV.
Label: Aristotelis Moralia.—Old library numbers, 150, and in a
later hand, CXII, stand on the back; cf. nos. 1, 11, 51, 52, 65.
_ Contents: Aristotle’s Ethics, ten books, in the Latin version of
Iohannes A(r)gyropylus. Incip.: [O]mnis ars omnisque doctrina atque
actus.—Ezplic.: Hee itaque aggredientes deinceps dicamus. (Lib. 10,
Tract. 2, Cap. 4.) At the head of f. la, stands this title in red: Liber
aristotilis de moribus ad nichomachum quem iohannes Agyropylus
byzantius gratia magnifici cosme medicis florentini traduxit. The
reference is to Cosimo de’ Medici, 1389-1464.
Spaces have been left for large initials, but these have not been
supplied. Book, treatise, and chapter headings are in red.
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The books occupy the following folia:
Lib. 1, ff. la- 8a. Lib. 6, ff. 376-430.
Lib. 2, ff. 8α-18α. Lib. 7, ff. 436-520.
Lib. 3, ff. 18α-21α. Lib. 8, ff. 52b-60a.
Lib. 4, ff. 21a-29a. Lib. 9, ff. θ0α- 670.
Lib. 5, ff. 29a-37b. Lib. 10, ff. 67b-76a.
There are various notes: on the inside of the front cover, in pencil,
in German script, 76 beschr(iebene) Bl(atter). On the last verso, in
pencil, a price-mark in Marks. On the same page, in red, Questo libro
e di Gi. . . Japrato. The name has been crossed out.
. BaLpus DE Perusio, Consilia de Iure.
Paper, ff. xiii+151, cm. 30X22.5, double columns, 40-42 lines.
8 quires, of 20, except the Ist (12) and 6th, 7th, and 8th (18). Margin
rulings on both sides. Ff. ixa—xiiib, 149a-1516 blank. Berlin Purchase
no. 32. Century XV.
Label: wanting. The manuscript has lost its cover—At the foot
of the back is an oval paper label, like that on nos. 2, 12, 14, 17, 18, 39,
47, 54, 63, 65, inscribed .41.
Contents: Baldus de Perusio, Consilia de Iure.
1. Repertorium Infra scriptorum consiliorum eminentissimi utrius-
que iuris doctoris domini Baldi de Perusio dum in facto occurrerent de
jure consulentis, in summa referens quid unumquidque consiliorum
ipsorum in effectu contineat videlicet.—clx titles follow, ff. iia—viiib.
2. Incipiunt conscilia domini Baldi de perusio et aliorum quam pluri-
morum doctorum, ff. 1a-148b. Incip.: Factum Intelligo sub ista
forma.—Exzplic.: de tutela. Baldus deo gratias Amen Amen Amen.
Ff. i-iv have suffered some mutilation, through damp and neglect.
A later hand has annotated the text at many points. In the formulas
the name of Baldus occurs most frequently; et ita dico ego Baldus;
but other names appear; Petrus de Perusio, f. 13b; Honofrius de Perusio,
legum doctor, f. 13); Angelus de Perusio (i.e., de Ubaldis? flor. 1423)
legum doctor, f. 14a; Angelus de Merianis decretorum doctor, f. 33a;
Tacobus de Belviso (i.e., Belloviso? flor. 1270) f. 430; Franciscus de
Altergotis, f. 370, and again in the form Franciscus de Altergoctis de
Arecio (Francesco Accolti, 1418-83), ff. 55b, 84a, 93a; Franciscus de
Ramporibus, f. 109a; Iohannes de Lignano, (flor. 1380) ib., and f. 117a;
Antonius de Praesebris, f. 109a; Iohannes de Casali, ib.; Paganinus de
Sala, ff. 123a, 144a; Bartholus de Saxoferrato (11855), ff. 81a, 93),
118α; cf. f. 108a; Angelus de Castillono, f. 144a; Iacobus Bructicarius
(i.e., de Bugtrigariis? flor. 1320) f. 1376; and some others. F. 180 has
adate: In Anno domini M° CCC° LXXXX de mense Iulii 26, along
with others. References to Extracta de casibus legis longobarde are
made on f. 5a.
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7. Benepictus XIV, Iustitie et Pacis.
Parchment, ff. 38, em. 3424.5, single columns, 21 lines. 3 quires,
1st and 2d of 12, 3d of 14. The writing extends to the insides of both
parchment covers. Berlin Purchase no. 44. 1746.
Label: none. At top of front cover, Num. 64. In middle of back
cover, Registrata in Secretaria Brevium.
Contents: Bull of Benedict XIV, Lustitie et Pacis. Incip. (front
cover, verso): Benedictus ep(iscopu)s Servus Servorum Dei Ad Per-
petuam Rei Memoriam. Lustitie et Pacis Custodes et Adsertores non
solum in Universa Ecclesia Christi—EFzplic. (f. 38b): Datum Rome
apud sanctam Mariam Maiorem anno incarnationis Dominice millesimo
septingentesimo quadragesimo sexto, Sexto Nonas Octobris Pontificatus
Nostri Anno Septimo.
Signatures follow:
X: subdatarius
Visa, Pro D(omi)no Cardinali Passioneo
De curia I. C. Boschi Toannes Florius Substitutus
Ib. Eugenius
Ducat(i) Decem et Iul(hatum ?) Unum.
Of the last two lines, the first is in the elaborate hand of the manu-
script, the second in ordinary cursive. This last is perhaps the copyist’s
fee. The great leaden seal (bulla) of Benedict XIV is attached to the
book by a silken cord of red and yellow, the Papal colors, marking the
document as “in forma gratiosa.”’ Cardinal Passioneo was at this
time Librarian of the Holy See. Benedict became pope in 1740. The
hand is of the most exaggerated type, and great florid pen and ink
capitals stand at the head of every page. Similar signatures appear in
Bullarium Romanum, Acta Benedicti XIV, vols. I and 11.
. BENEDICTUS DE PERuSIO, ANGELUS DE ARECIO, ET AL., Rubricae.
Paper, ff. 148, em. 31.5 21.5, single columns, 46-48 lines. Leaves
numbered 99-238; nos. 122, 123, after being given to blank leaves,
are repeated. 16 quires of 12, except nos. 1, 9, 14, 15 (10); 2 (9); 8, 10,
16 (8); 3 (6); 4,5 (2). Ff. 1186-1176, 121a-123'B, 1250, 167b, 179b-
1870, 2386-2396 are blank. Century XV (probably 1400-1450).
Label: wanting.
Contents: Rubricae, mostly testamentary: Benedictus de Perusio,
De Testamentis, ff. 99b (a?)-107a; De Heredibus Instituendis, ff. 107b-
108a; De Contrariis Tabulis, ff. 109a-113a; De Codicillis, ff. 118a-1200;
Angelus de Arecio, De Legatis, ff. 122a-179a; (the same?) Ad Tre-
bellia, ff. 188a-238a. Incip.: Furiosum iri suis iri. Furiosus habens
dillucida intervalla.—Ezplic.: ita voluit Baldus in dicta auct(oritativa ?)
contra (?) rogat(um?) in principio secunda collumna.
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The parchment reinforcement in the folds of the later quires is from
a Latin Psalter, beautifully written in two very narrow columns.
Some names are given in headings and colophons written in capitals
by the first hand. On f. 1200, at the close of the section of text: Hic
tractatus codicillorum co<m)pilat(us) est per D. Meum Benedictum de
Parmis de Perusio Utriusque Monarcham (Benedetto Capra, ca. 1400 3).
—At the head of f. 122a: De Legatis Et Fidey Conmissis Primo.—At
the head of f. 126a: Rubrica de Fidey Conmissis et 1 c. 1°.—At the end
of the section of text, f. 179a: Hic Est Finis Hujus Legis. Nemo
Potest. De Legatis Primo Repetite Per D. Meum A(n)gelum De
Arecio Famosissimum Legum Doctorem (Angelo Gambiglioni, [1461 ἢ).
—At the head of f. 188a: Rub(ri)ca.—In the upper right-hand corner of
this, and many later rectos, is minutely written: Ad Trebellia, usually
much abbreviated.—Another hand has written at the head of f. 99a:
Hic incipiunt collecte ἃ. benedicti de perusio. In a smaller hand,
at the head of f. 109a, dominus Alafrancus de ariano repetii.... .
This must be Chevalier’s Lanfranc d’Oriano, 1472, and this note of
his fixes the general period of the manuscript. In another hand, opposite
the title De Legatis, etc., f. 122a: Angelide Aretio. There are occasional
marginal notes in early hands.
. BERNARDUS CLAREVALENIS, De Consideratione.
Paper, ff. 42, cm. 21.315, single columns, 36-40 lines. 5 quires,
of 8 except the 5th (10). Quire signatures have been for the most
part trimmed away in rebinding. No rulings. Century XV.
Label: Ms. XIII s[aec(uli)].—The binding, brown leather over
boards, is tooled all over with a stag, an agnus dei, and a fleur-de-lis.
There are two brass clasps.
Contents: Bernard of Clairvaux, De Consideratione, five books.
Title: Incipit tractatus Bernardi abbatis clarevalensis de consideraci-
one. ad eugenium papam. L. 1.—Incip.: Subit animum dictantem
aliquid quod te papa beatissime eugenium vel edificet vel delectet.—
Explic.: Proinde is sit finis libri sed non finis querendi.
Lib. 1, ff. la—-7b.
Lib. 2, ff. 7b-16a.
Lib. 3, ff. 16a-23a.
Lib. 4, ff. 23a-300.
Lib. 5, ff. 30b-42a.
There are various notes in later hands: on f. 420, at the top, Mss du
13° siécle; at the bottom, 86, and a name (F. Marcel ?).—Within the
front cover, xiv® Siécle. 1 vol. manss. 36#.—In another hand, G, and
below D.—In another hand, F. Franciscus Martin Minor Coclericus (?)
Theologus Parisiensis qui supra 1719.
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10. Buastus ΡΒ Parma, Questiones super Libro Methaurorum.
11.
Paper, ff. ii+37, cm. 3022.5, double columns, 46-48 lines, 3 quires,
the 1st of 14, 2d of 8, 84 of 22. Margin rulings on both sides. . Ff. 16
and 20 are blank. Berlin Purchase no. 25. Century XV.
Label: wanting. The manuscript has lost its cover.
Contents: Title (in a late hand) Blasius de Parma. Incip.: f. 1a:
Cirea principium libri methaurorum Queritur primo Utrum mundus
generabilium et corporabilium gubernetur a celo—Hxplic., f. 870: Et
sit finis omnium questionum circa librum methaurorum et omnium
aliorum librorum methaurorum Aristotelis cum laude et gloria christi
qui vivit et regnat in secula seculorum amen amen amen.
Expliciunt questiones super libro methaurorum aristotelis quas
compilavit Magister Blasius de parma complete et scripte per Magistrum
Iohannem de medicis de yt°.:
Ff. 1a—5b, questiones 1-4, super libro primo.
Ff. 6a-17a, questiones 16-8, super libro secundo.
Ff. 17a-31a, questiones 1-9, super libro tertio.
Ff. 31a-37b, questiones 1-7, super libro quarto.
There is a gap, covering perhaps 2 ff., in the middle of the first quire,
between ff. 5b and 6a. The scribe began the text on f. iia, but stopped
after 23 lines, and began afresh on f. la. In the outer upper corner of
f. iia stands a note in four short lines. On f. ia a late hand has written,
Vidit Celius Riccardus.
This discussion of the Meteorologica of Aristotle is anti-Aristotelian
in tone, and probably represents the Platonist reaction fostered by the
Medici.
CaLpERINvus, Commentaria in Martialem.
Parchment, ff. 182, em. 32.624.5. Single columns, 30 lines.
13 gatherings of 10, except the 3d (4) which has lost 3, and the 12th (8)
which has lost its fifth pair. The 2d and 3d were wrongly bound, the
leaves running 21, 20, 11-19, 22-24; they have now (1910) been cor-
rectly rearranged. The loss in quire 12 is noted in no very late hand in
the margin, f. 119: deficiunt duo paginae. Some gatherings are lost
before f. 1 and probably 3 quires between ff. 10 and 11. From f. 25 the
manuscript is continuous to f. 90, most of which leaf has been cut out;
thence again through f. 118, after which 2 leaves are wanting; and thence
again to the end, from which other quires may have been lost. The
manuscript is properly made, flesh sides facing flesh sides. Rulings on
the hair side. Berlin Purchase no. 18. Probably century XV.
Label: XXXII on a paper slip at the foot of the back, as in nos. 1,
5, 51, 52, 65.
Contents: Domitii Calderini Commentaria in Martialem ab epi-
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grammato XLI libri III ad epigramma XXX libri XTII. (So ἃ modern
hand on inside of cover.) More exactly, the manuscript covers in
whole or in part Epigrams 3:34, 40 (41)—4:3; 5:78-6:45; 7:4-12;
7:26-35; 7:53—(11:9-17 mutilated) 12:78; 13:1-31; 14:127-207 in
the order given below. The missing portions are 1:1-3:33; 1:35-39;
4:45:77; 6:46—7:3; 7:138-52; 12:79-98; 13:32-127; 14:1-126;
14:208-223. Incip.: ut nix, sed non esse chionem quia nigra est et non
candida, f. la.—Explic.: De grege vestino. id est ex ovibus vestinis,
f. 1320.
In more detail: ff. 1-10 deal with 3:34, 40 (41)—4:3; ff. 11-20,
with 5:78—6:45; f. 21 with 7:4-12; ff. 22, 23 with 7:26-35; f. 24
with 7:53-58. From this point the Commentary continues without
interruption to f. 90 (11:9-17), most of which has been cut out;
thence again without interruption through f. 118 (12:78). While only
2 leaves seem to be lost at this point, there is a much larger gap in the
Commentary, 12:79-98, and the exemplar may have been defective or
disordered here, for ff. 119a-127b supply 14:127-207, which is followed
on ff. 128a-132b by 18:1-31. The hand and finish suggest an Italian
origin.
The quoted words from the Epigrams are in red. There are now
733 large marginal initials, illuminated in colors and gold leaf. A few
have been cut out of the manuscript. The parchment is of good quality.
The wrong initials have in many cases been supplied by the illuminator,
and the order of epigrams is not always the same as that, e.g., of W. M.
Lindsay’s edition (Oxford, 1902) which we have followed in the number-
ing of the epigrams above. The second printed edition of Martial
(Rome 1473, fol.) was accompanied by the Commentary of D. Calderini
who in 1475 produced a commentary on Juvenal (cf. Friedlander, D.
Iunii Iuvenalis Saturarum Libri V, 1895, p. 96).
Sextus Crioptivs, Fast.
M. Messata, De Bello Troiano.
Sextus Rurus, De urbe opusculum.
Lronarpus ARETINUS, Vita Ciceronts.
Paper, ff. 46, cm. 33X23, single columns, 28 lines, 6 gatherings, of
8. The last two leaves have been torn from the last quire, being prob-
ably blank. Berlin Purchase no. 20. Probably century XV-XVI.
Label: Sexti Clodii Fasti M. Messala. Sextus Rufus. Leonardus
Aretinus.—Below (on a paper slip like that on nos. 2, 6, 14, 17, 18, 39,
47, 54, 63, 65), 171. On the front parchment cover, at the top,
Sex. Clodi Fasti.
Sex. Rufi de urbe opusculum.
Leonardi Aretini Vita Ciceronis.
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Contents: Sextus Clodius, Fasti, Parts of Lib. 6and7. M. Messala,
De bello Troiano. Sextus Rufus, De urbe opusculum. Leonardus
Aretinus, Vita Ciceronis.
On fly-leaf 1a: Sex. Clodius Fastos graece scripsit: un(de?) testi-
monium Citat inst. divinarum libro primo Lactantius agens de Fatua.
The same again on fly-leaf 2b (Lactanctius).
At the foot of f. 1a, a hand later than that of the manuscript has
added this
Index.
Sexti Clodii Fasti M. Messalae liber de bello Trojano
Sexti Rufi de urbe opusculum. Leonardi Aretini Praefatio in Cicerone
novo ad Nicolaum, sive Ciceronis vita
ab Aretino scripta.
Nicolaus is doubtless Pope Nicholas V, 1389-1455, the patron of
the humanists.
1. Sextus Clodius, Fasti. Lib. 6, ff. la-12b. Incip.: De nominibus
Worum qui civitatem romanam primitus condiderunt. Et primo de
Noe primo urbis conditore rubrica. [M]odum constructionis et dis-
positionis Urbis Romanae demonstrat.
Lib. 7, ff. 18a-14a. Incip.: Explicit liber sextus. Incipit septimus.
Prohemium. Inter alios antiqui operis lectionarios——Exzplic.: Unde
illum poeta capitolii..........2.. reliqua desiderantur.
2. M. Messala, De bello Troiano. Ff. 15a-22b. Incip.: M.
Messala De bello Troiano ad Caesarem Augustum liber incipit. Cum
frequenter me digna moveat.—Ezplic.: Aeternum Vale saeculi perenne
ac immortale decus Caesar Auguste: Finis.
8. Sextus Rufus, De urbe opusculum. Ff. 285-250. Incip.:
Sexti Ruffi de urbe opusculum. Regio prima porta Capena continet
aedem Honoris.—Explic.: mensae oleariae per totam urbem duo
M. CCCC: Finis.
4. Leonardus Aretinus, Vita Ciceronis. Ff. 26a-46b. Incip.:
Leonardi Aretini Orat. Clariss. Praefatio in Cicerone novo ad Nicolaum.
Ocioso mihi nuper.—Explic.: ignominioseque perierunt. Ciceronis
Vita per Leonardum Aretinum contexta.
The interior of the manuscript has been much injured by damp and
pressure. There are many notes in the margins, especially copious
for the last work, which have been partially trimmed away in a former
rebinding. ‘Two fragments of an annotated legal(?) work in Latin have
been used in the binding, and Professor Beeson has recognized their
script as that of Monte Cassino.
Ascanius CoLUMNA AND CaEsar Barontus, De Monarchia Siciliae.
Paper, ff. 88, cm. 26X20. (FY. 1-3 and 33 being blank, the leaves
have been numbered beginning with the 4th; 200 is numbered 30.
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14.
This numbering we have followed below.) Single columns, 23 lines,
8 quires of 4, preceded by a fly-leaf. Rulings for side margins, for the
inner margins on the recto, for the outer on the verso. Berlin Purchase
no. 48. Century XVII.
Label: none. The leaves are without a cover.
Contents: Opinion of Cardinal Colonna upon views expressed by
Baronius de Monarchia Siciliae, in the 11th volume of his Annales,
with Baronius’ reply and defense.
1. Ascanii Cardinalis Columnae, eorum quae Caesar Cardinalis
Baronius de Monarchia Siciliae scripsit iudicium, ff. la—4b. After this
title, Incip.: Obtulisti mihi ex hispania redeunti, xi. ac postremum typis
impressum historiarum tuarum Thomum. Plurimis rogasti precibus,
ut quae de Siciliae Monarchia scripseras, excurrerem attentius, et quae
mea de illis esset sententia, libere declararem.—Ezplic.: speroque fore ut
ea quae ego amore ac christiana pietate, et legi et scripsi, eadem tu,
et oblata excipias, et legas excepta.
2. Cardinalis Baronii respontio apologetica adversus Cardinalis
Columnae iudicium de Siciliae Monarchia in xi. Annal. tom., ff. 5a—26b.
After this title, Incip.: Lubrica res est concordia fratrum.—Explic.:
etiam quotidiani foeneris cumulanda perpetuo servaturum.
3. Letter of Baronius to Philip III of Spain, ff. 27a-29b (numbered
30-). Incip.: Sacra Regia Catholica Maiestas. Non ante creationem
Summi Pontif(icis) eiusdemque aetate—EHzplic.: valeat semper Deo
placens, hominibusque proficiens Catholica Maiestas vestra. Datum
in Tusculano. Idibus Iunii 1605. Catholicae Maiestati vestrae addi-
tissimus servus Caesar Cardinalis Baronius.
Baronius (1538-1607) undertook his Annales Ecclesiastici at the
order of his superior Philip Neri, and published them in twelve volumes,
1588-1607. His attitude on the Spanish pretensions to the possession
of Sicily offended Spain, and Spanish opposition prevented his election
as Pope, 1607.
Watermark: An agnus dei within a double circle: on the outer circle
above the lamb, the letter A.—In the fly-leaf: a fowl within a circle.
Dioporus Sicutus, Bibliotheca.
Paper, ff. 200, cm. 28.3 20.5, in 20 quires, of 10; single columns
of 30 lines. The hand that numbered the leaves made an error at f. 52,
which is numbered 51. Rulings on one side only. Berlin Purchase
no. 11. Probably century XV.
Label: Diodor. Sic. Poggii Florentin. Codex Cartac. Below, 94,
on a paper label like that of nos. 2, 6, 12, 17, 18, 39, 47, 54, 63, 65.
Contents: Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, six books, in the
Latin version of Poggio of Florence.
1. Prohemium in libros Diodori Siculi quos Poggius Florentinus
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latinos fecit ad Nicolaum Quintum Summum Pontificem. Ff. la-2a.
Incip.: [IJulius antea quantum vis praeclarus rerum scriptor fuit,
sanctissime pater.—Explic.: Sed iam ipse diodorus loquatur.
2. Diodori Siculi Historiarum Priscarum a Poggio in latinum tra-
ducti incipit liber primus. F. 2a.
Lib. 1, ff. 2a-23a. Incip.: [MJagnas merito gratias rerum scripto-
ribus homines debent.
Lib. 2, ff. 28a-50a. This and the remaining books have a table
of contents prefixed to each.
Lib. 8, ff. 50a-770.
Lib. 4, ff. 78a-114.
Lib. 5, ff. 114b-157a.
Lib. 6, ff. 157a-2000. Explic.: Quibus de rebus suo loco scribetur a
nobis. Finis.
A later hand has supplied frequent marginal notes designed as
guides to the contents. Space has occasionally been left for large initials,
which have not been supplied. There are small marginal capitals,
which have been touched up in red. The manuscript is probably some
little time later than the time of Pope Nicholas V (1447-55) to whom the
translation is addressed, f. la. A cardinal’s arms (those of Pius VI
halved [‘‘impaled’’] with a lion rampant) are stamped upon the binding;
cf. the arms of Pius VI, on the bindings of Glycas, Georgius Hamartolus,
and de Rancé (nos. 47-49, 65).
Diogenes LaErtivs, De Vita et Moribus Philosophorum.
Paper, ff. 192, cm. 2921.7, single columns, 34 lines. 20 quires of
10, except the 20th (2). Rulings on one side only. A single parch-
ment fly-leaf at the beginning gives a table of contents, in a less care-
ful hand (double columns). Handsomely illuminated initials on ff. la,
2a. Berlin Purchase no. 12. Probably century XV.
Label: wanting.
Contents: Diogenes Laertius, De Vita et Moribus Philosophorum,
ten books, in a Latin version of Ambrose of Camaldoli.
1. The parchment fly-leaf gives the contents in detail and by pages.
Incip.: Diogenis Laertii Tabula, librorum decem, de vitis ac sententiis,
eorum qui in philosophia claruerunt.—Zxzplic.: Finis huiuscae operis
tabulae a me camillo brunello Theri scriptae atque compositae, etc.
vale. In another hand, Saeculi XIV aut]] XV. Another hand has
deleted XIV aut, and added a flourish.
2. Incipit Prefatio Ambrosii monachi Chamaldulensis in libro
Laertii Diogenis de vita et moribus philosophorum ad Cosmam Medicem.
(Doubtless Cosimo de’ Medici, 1389-1464.)
Volventi mihi quedam greca volumina venit ad manus Laertii
Diogenis de philosophis prolixum opus, ff. 1a-2a.
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3. Laertii Diogenis vite atque sententiae eorum qui in philosophia
claruerunt. Philosophiam a barbaris initia sumpsisse plerique autum-
ant, ff. 2a-5a. There follow, Lib. 1, ff. 5a—20b, lives of Thales Milesius,
Solon Salaminus, Chilo, Pittacus, Bias Prieneus, Cleobolus, Periander,
Anacharsis, Myson, Epimenides, Pherecides.
Lib. 2, ff. 2la-44a: Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Arche-
laus, Socrates, Xenophon, Aeschines, Aristippus, Theodorii, Phedon,
Euclides, Stilpo, Crito, Simon, Glaucus, Simmias, Cebes, Menedemus.
Lib. 3, ff. 44a-60a: Plato.
Lib. 4, ff. 60a-7la: Speusippus, Xenocrates, Polemo, Crates,
Crantor, Archesilaus, Bion, Lacides, Carneades, Clitomachus.
Lib. 5, ff. 71a-85b: Aristoteles, Theophrastus, Strato, Lycon, Deme-
trius Phalereus, Heraclides.
Lib. 6, ff. 86a-102b: Antisthenes, Diogenes, Monimus Syracusanus,
Enesicretus (al. Onesicratus), Crates, Metrocles, Hipparchia, Menippus,
Menedemus.
Lib. 7, ff. 102b-134b: Zeno, Cleanthes, Crysippus.
Lib. 8, ff. 185a-148b: Pithagoras, Empedocles, Epicharmus, Archi-
tas, Alemeon, Hippasus, Philolaus, Eudoxus.
Lib. 9, ff. 149a-168a: Heraclitus, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Melissus,
Zeno Eleates, Leucippus, Democritus, Protagoras, Diogenes, Anax-
archus, Pyrro, Timon.
Lib. 10, ff. 168a-192b: Epicurus.
Ezplic.: lamentis prosecuti non sunt defuncti celeriorem obitum.
Laertii diogenis de vitis atque sententiis eorum qui in philosophia
claruerunt liber decimus et ultimus explicit feliciter. Finis.
Some spaces are left for words which the scribe probably found
illegible in his exemplar, e.g., ff. 106b-109b, 112b-113a, 1146, etc. Some
marginal notes. One, in red like the titles and superscriptions, after the
conclusion of Lib. 7 on f. 1340 reads: Deesse videtur multum in septimo
libro, sed ita habetur in greco exemplari. On the inside of the first cover,
a hand different from those of the manuscript has written traversavi.
On the inside of the last cover is penciled a price mark in lire; also a
note of six lines in ink: Al mio magnifico 6 honorando Sa!™ a li chi
passati Io pier martiro stichi In . . . monte Santo Martino, etc.
Epistola Conventus Carthusiensis Sancti Salvatoris Erffordi.
Parchment. f. 1, cm. 1814.3, once glued face downward as a guard
inside the back cover of Hieronymus in Ysayam (no. 25). One wide
column, 12 lines, mutilated at beginnings by trimming. Written in
1441, at Erfurt, the sheet was used probably in 1442 in the binding of
the Hieronymus manuscript, which was written in 1442, and belonged
to the same convent.
Label: wanting.
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Contents: Address by the Carthusian Convent of The Holy Savior,
at Erfurt, 1441.—As this is brief, and has the ἰαιξεγέϑὺ of an original
document, its text is given in full.
].. ulis Prior Totusque Conventus senile Sancti Salva-
os Erffordi ordinis Carthus(iensis)
]b . . er eius legitime ac filie. In Bremen commora(n)tibus
Salutemetp........ suffragia
] . sempiterna vestre meretur devotionis affectus quod ad
ordinem nostrum et specialiter ad domum
Js quatenus quibusdam spiritualibus roboretur fulcimentis ut eo
amplius crescat in fervore
Js aput deum piis fuerit suffragiis adiutus. Hine est per vos om-
nium missarum orationum
] . vigiliarum abstinenciarum et ele(m)osinarum ceterorumque
religiosorum exercicorum ac bonorum spiritualia
]. . . . et domino nostro Ihesu Christo in domo nostra fiunt et quem-
libet fient in futurum partici
|... pariter et in morte Addicientes de gratia speciali quod cum obitus
vester quem dominus felicem
] Et conventui nuncciatus. per animam ‘vestram in remedio.
tales iniungens orationes celebrari. quae
] principibus fieri consueverunt In cuius testimonium Sigillum
domus nostre praesentibus durius (?)
] anno domini millesimo cece. ΧΙ]. In crastino beate Agathe virginis
ΙΝ et martyris
Dicatis (or Dicatur?) singulis diebus pro
ordine nostro tria pater noster et ave maria
17. Evusrstus, Chronica.
Paper, ff. 44, em. 40.528.5, in 5 quires, of 10, except the 5th (4).
Ff. 1-6, double columns; ff. 7-44, chronicle form; 38-50 lines. Line
rulings on one side, column rulings on both sides. Berlin Purchase no.
14. 1455.
Label: Euseb. Hiero. et Prosp. Chron. Mss. 1455.—On the back at
the bottom no. 164, on a paper label, like that on nos. 2, 6, 12, 14, 18,
39, 47, 54, 63, 65.
Contents: The Chronicle of Eusebius, in the Latin version of Jerome,
with his continuation and that of Prosper of Aquitaine. Incip.: Incipit
Cronica Eusebii Hyeronimi cum superadditis Prosperi—Ezplic.:
Ab adam vero usque in praesentem annum domini 1455 quo hoc opus
felicissime extitit, 6654,
Θεωκατὴν
The contents in detail are:
1. The so-called Obtestatio Eusebii, beginning Adiuro te quicum-
que hos descripseris libros, etc. F. la.
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2. Prefatio Hyeronimi: Eusebius Hyeronimus Vincentio et Galieno
suis salutem. Ff. la—2a.
3. Incipit Eusebii interpretata prefatio. Ff. 2a-3b.
4. Interpretatio sancti Hyeronimi De nominibus gentium felicissime
Amen sic ordiens. Ff. 3b-4b.
5. Exordium libri feliciter incipit. Ff. 4b-7a.
6. The Chronicle. Ff. 7a-44b. (The “Series Regum” usual at
the beginning does not appear.) From Anno Mundi ca. 3100 to 5646.
Incip.: Regnum assiriorum. Primus omni asie regnavit Ninus. F. 7a.
—Explic.: Valentiniano vi et Nono consulibus. (Anno Mundi) 5646.
Hic finit prosper post hieronimum. Explicit cronica Eusebii Hieronimi
Prosperi.
Gratias Domino nostro Iesu Christo Amen
Fifteen lines following give lengths and limits of various periods, and
last of all the date of the manuscript as above, A.D. 1455, a.m. 6654.
The Chronica falls into three parts:
(1) Eusebius, ff. 7a-36a (a.m. 5520). Hactenus Eusebius. Dein-
ceps Hyeronimus.
(2) Hieronymus, ff. 360-380 (ca. a.M. 5520-5580). Hucusque
Hieronimus.
(8) Prosper of Aquitaine, ff. 88b-44b (ca. a.m. 5580-5646). Hic
finit prosper post hieronimum.
F. la exhibits two interesting capitals, of no great elegance. The
fly-leaf in the back shows a penciled pricemark in lire.
Evsesius, Historia Ecclesiastica.
Paper, ff. 272, cm. 25.819, single columns, 30-33 lines. 23 quires
of 12, except the Ist (11), 22d (10), and 23d (11). Ff. 10, 11 blank.
Rulings on one side. Berlin Purchase no. 13. Probably century XV
or XVI.
Label: Eusebii Caesarie(nsis) Historia Ecclesia(stica) M.S. Below,
no. 72, on a paper label like that on nos. 2, 6, 12, 14, 17, 39, 47, 54, 63, 65.
Contents: Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, eleven books, in the
Latin version of Rufinus. Incip.: Quod deus et dominus et creator
(f. 2a). Ezxplic.: cum piissimis principibus percepturus premia meri-
torum (f. 272b).—On f. la: Historia Ecclesiastica Eusebii Caesariensis,
in a late hand.
1. Chapter titles of Lib. 1-11. Ff. 2a-9a.
2. In red: Incipit hystoria ecc(lesi)astica eusebii cesariensis episcopi
translata a ruffino presbytero de greco in latinum ad Cromatium epis-
copum. Incipit prologus. F. 12a.—The prologue begins Meritorum,
instead of Peritorum, the illuminator having supplied the wrong capital.
Rufinus’ digression on Gregory Thaumaturgus is present after 7:28:2,
(ff. 177b-180b), as well as his form of Lib. 10, and his Lib. 11. Initials
are in red or blue, and sometimes handsomely illuminated. Quire indi-
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cations have been mostly trimmed away in rebinding. Each book after
the first is preceded by a list of chapter titles. The arms of a bishop
(Cardinal Fieschi 3), illuminated, appear at the foot of f. 12a.
3. The Ecclesiastical History, in 11 books, ff. 13a-272b. The books
occupy the following ff.:
Lib. 1, ff. 186-828. Lib. 6, ff. 1336-1645.
Lib. 2, ff. 32b-52b. Lib. 7, ff. 1650-1876.
Lib. 3, ff. 520-780. Lib. 8, ff. 187b-207a.
Lib. 4, ff. 188-1080 Lib. 9, ff. 207b-224a.
Lib. 5, ff. 1036-1336. Lib. 10, ff. 2240-2505.
Lib. 11, ff. 2506-2726.
There are scholia, as well as a few corrections by a later hand in the
margin. The scholia, written with a fine pen, have in part been trimmed
away, and so must be older than the binding. On the inside of the back
cover is a pricemark in lire.
Evangeliorum Quattuor Harmonia.
Paper, ff. 117, em. 13.4X10.2, single columns, 22-24 lines. 10
quires, of 12, except the 10th (8). Quire signatures (first word follow-
ing) stand at the foot of the last versos of quires 1-9. The leaf-openings
are numbered in red, 1-111, f. la being numbered 1, ff. 1b, 2a, 2, ete.
Hengstenberg Collection. Century XV.
Label: wanting. The binding is of parchment, parts of two missals
having been used for it.
Contents: A Latin Harmony of the Four Gospels. Incip.: -yhs.
L. 1
Fuit in diebus herodis regis iude sacerdos quidam (f. 1a).—Ezplic.:
domino cooperante et sermonem confirmante sequentibus signis.—
Then, in red: Yhesus dulcis memoria da nobis te in tua gloria Amen
(f. 1118).
Ff. 112a-115d, a table of contents, now incomplete, showing what
chapters of the gospels are used in each section. This and the para-
graphs following (f. 116a, ὃ) evidently stood originally at the beginning,
before the main text. JIncip.: Reliquit yhesus judeam terram et abiit
in galilia M m L J, 1. 112a.—Ezplic.: Hiecit vendentes et ementes de
templo cum introisset in eo. 21 11 19 (f. 1150).
Ff. 116a, ὃ, (1) Explanation of preceding table and (2) prologue to
the Harmony, Incip.: Explicit tabula super evvangelium domini
nostri et salvatoris yhesu christi filii dei et virginis marie domine nostre.
Sequitur rubricha ad intelligendum ipsam tabulam, f. 116a. (This and
the rubric following in red.)—The prologue follows the rubric. Incip.:
Cum evvangelistarum legissem volumina reperissemque in eis signa
multa ac verba domini yhesu, f. 116a.—Ezplic.: Qui non studiosse sed
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ignoranter composui credems ac firmiter tenens que mater ecclesia per
omnia tenet: (in red) Explicit argumentum Incipit liber feliciter: f. 1160.
In the Harmony, the materials of the four Gospels are minutely
interwoven. The desire to omit as little as possible has led to much
repetition, but the work has been painstakingly and apparently inde-
pendently done. The source of each portion of text is indicated by the
initial of the evangelist (Μ m L J) and the chapter number, in red above
the first word of the quotation. The use of the present chapter numbers,
devised by Stephen Langton at the end of the thirteenth century, shows
that not only the manuscript but very probably the harmony itself
originated after the thirteenth century. Indeed it is probable that the
Harmony is not much if at all older than this copy of it. The water
marks, abbreviations, and style of writing point to a date for the
manuscript in the fifteenth century (ca. 1450). The margins have
been much reduced in trimming, the red section titles having been partly
trimmed away.
The guards and fly-leaves contain a number of notes in early hands.
On the first fly-leaf
jadi 17 marzo 1550 io do zuav (... )
] {maria di nargarado]]
] ego iohanes + Caminus(?)
On the last fly-leaf, recto, este liber est mei—Verso, Adi 17 marzo
1550 io do...... ...( )o.—Within, on the last cover, ] hec
sine numine domini(?) eveniunt (the last word in a more formal hand).—
Below, badly blotted, ] este liber est mei domini..... ..... At
the end of the text, f. 1110, a later hand has written, Carissimo aman-
t(issim)o m(esser) barba Sariti contento di mandarmi.
Horatius Fettrivs, Conatus irriti Ossunae ducts ne a regimine
Neapolitani regni amoveretur Liber Unus.
Paper, ff. 32, em. 2620.3, single columns, 21 lines. 5 quires, of 8,
except 1 (6) and 2 (2). 1625.
Contents: f. 1, Conatus irriti Ossunae ducis ne a regimine Neapolitani
regni amoveretur liber unus. Ad lectorem. Auctore Horatio Feltrio
Neapolitano Viro Patritio—F. 2 contains a preface. The history
occupies ff. 3-32. Incip., f. 3a: Neapolitanum Regnum, in extremis
Italiae finibus situm. .. Ezplic., f. 32 (numbered 31): a Borgia
retentus perficere non valuit. Underneath this the beginning of a
colophon [| Usque hue scribebat]] is deleted. Under this deletion
another colophon is written: Cuncta, quae in hoc opusculo perleguntur,
aut propriis oculis inspexit, aut a quamplurimis audivit, ac bona fide
posteris tradidit, Horatius Feltrius Ant. fil. Marci Nepos. An
M.DCXX.V.
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22.
The folio numbering (old) omits a blank leaf after no. 7, now the
second leaf in quire 2, which was probably originally meant to fold the
other way, to serve as cover and at the same time as f. 1 of quire 1,
making this, as well as quires 3-5 a quaternion. The mistake is the
binder’s. The folio numbering must of course have been written
before the binding was done. Scholia and corrections by a hand not
much later than the writer’s appear throughout, in the margin.
Fides Caietana.
Paper, ff. 142, cm. 27X20, single columns, 27-29 lines. 15 quires, of
10, except 1st (8), 14th (12), and 15th (2). The leaves are numbered
1-140. Berlin Purchase no. 45. Century XVII.
Label: Fides Caietana in Controversia Conceptionis B. Mariae V.
Above this a square paper label numbered 23, with fragment of a later
label. Flexible parchment binding, with gilded tooling.
Contents: Fides Caietana In Controversia Conceptionis Beatae
Mariae Virginis Vindicata a nullitatis Iniuria hominis mendacis in
statera sua reperti: f. la. A Defense of Caietan’s doctrine of the
Conception of the Blessed Virgin, against Marracius. IJncip.: Cum in
sacrosancta Lateranensi Synodo Sub Leone X° de Conceptione Beatae
Virginis Controversia a praesentibus ageretur, f. la—Exzplic.: quis ita
iudicet, nisi temerarius ?
Fidem Caietanam expertus sum plenam, et si non expertus essem,
plenam credidissem, non obstantibus quibuscumque in contra adducit
Marracius, f. 140d.
An “Index” (Table of Contents) occupies f. 14la, ὃ. Incip.:
Index Paragraphorum contentorum in hoc opere, cui titulus Fides
Caietana in Controversia Conceptionis Beatae Mariae Virginis vindicata
ἃ nullitatis Iniuria hominis mendacis in statera sua reperti, f. 141α.---
Explic.: Paragraphus 8s De Revelatione sanctae Caterinae Virginis
Senensis. pag. 106. (F. 141b.) F. 142 is blank.
At the head of the fly-leaf at the beginning: Vide in hoc
man(uscripto), etc. In the outer margin of f. la, a stamp: A leaping
hound above three bars (i.e., a fess gules and three bendlets purpure);
around it *Ex. MSS. RA. GA.D GENTILI*. At the foot of f. 1a,
Mss. IDi Carte 140 (the number of the manuscript 501, and of its
leaves, without the index quire). A price mark in lire is penciled on the
last guard.
GIRARDUS DE SEnIs, Distinctiones.
Paper, ff. 160, em. 31.223.4 (except ff. 1 and 10, a parchment
pair), double columns, 60-66 lines, 18 quires, of 10, except the 15th,
16th (6), 17th, and 18th (4). Rulings usually on both sides. Berlin
Purchase? 1466-69.
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Label: wanting.
Contents: Girardus of Siena, 48 Distinctiones.—Errores Philoso-
phorum.
1. Distinctiones, ff. la-146b. a) Prologus, ff. 1la-21b. Incip.:
Testatur Pater Noster Aurelius Aug(ustinus) 4 de Trinitate. Capitulo
15 (the reference is written over an erasure) quod sunt nonnulli qui
potuerunt aciem mentis ultra omnem creaturam transmittere et lucem
incommutabilis veritatis quantulacumque ex parte attingere quod
Christianos ex sola fide viventes non dum potuissent derident. Ex
quibus verbis potest habere evidenter quod etiam ipsi philosophi naturali
lumini innitentes ad cognitionem divinae veritatis pertingere potuerunt.
—Exzplic.: Ad argumenta principalia patent per ea quae dicta sunt in
articulis et hic(?) est finis.
Explicit prologus Eximii doctoris G[irardi de Senis]] in libro sententi-
arum ordinis fratrum heremitarum Sancti Aug(ustin)i Padue scriptus
In vigilia sancte crucis 1466 die 13 septembris deo gratias Amen.
b) Distinctiones 1-48, ff. 22a-146b. Incip.: Circa Primam Dis-
tinctionem Primi Libri. Quero Primo Utrum frui(ti)o sit essentialiter
unus actus.—Explic.: cui Christo cum suo patre et sancto spiritu sit
honor et gloria in secula seculorum Amen.
Prima Augusti Die Prima
Explicit hoc opus cum dei laude quod quidem inceptum fuit 1466 dum
essem magister studencium Et tempore magne persecutionis et tempta-
tionis. Expletum vero cum essem lector secundus licet immeritus 1468
tempore Magne tranquillitatis et pacis quam no[]s|]bis 116 qui sine fine
vivit et regnat Amen concedat. Amen. ὶ
7 die Septembris
Finis
Ad santum antonium et sanctum Iacobum eundo X. die Aprilis
[[accessi[] iter incepi. Perfeci autem 26 Augusti et eadem hora qua
praecysse Recessi Reversus sum incarnationis (or incolumis?) 1469.
c) Table of Contents of the five Questiones of the Prologue and the
48 Distinctiones of the text, ff. 147a-148a. Incip.: Questio prima
Utrum cognitio divine veritatis acquisita in theologia possit haberi per
scientias a philosophis adinventas.—Ezplic.: Quadragesime octava
distinctio questio Utrum voluntas nostra debeat esse conformis volun-
tati divine. Deo gratias Amen.
2. Title: In another hand: Incipiunt Errores Philosophorum Aristo-
telis Averrois Avicenne A(l)gazelis Alkandi Rabi moises. A fratre
Egidio col(e)c(tor)i(?) ordinis fratrum heremitarum sancti Augustini
Et primo de compilatione errorum Aristotelis, capitulum primum (red),
ff. 148b-150b. Incip.: [Q]uoniam uno incon(sequent)i dato multa
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contingunt sine secundo ex uno malo fundamento pertulit philosophus
multos errores.—Ezplic.: capitulum 14™ in quo inponitur finis prime
parti(s?) huius operis (red).
There is appended a note of ten lines: Incip.: O bone ihesu ad
laudem tuam.—Ezplic.: cui sit hono(r) et gloria in secula seculorum
Amen. 1469 die 24 septembris (the date in red).
This first part alone, De Compilatione errorum, in 14 chapters was
inscribed in the manuscript. This Augustinian Aegidius was perhaps
the Augustinian Aegidius Columna or de Roma, archbishop of Bourges
({December 22, 1316).
Ff. 151a-152a are left blank.
3. Puncta in quibus communiter reprobatur et a doctoribus magister
non tenetur In primo libro sentenciarum. F. 152b.—Exzplic.: hane
incipit excusari per hobedientiam et timorem de hoc quod poscenti
mulieri debitum reddidit a qua ipse numquam poscere debet.
4. The Letter of Lentulus to the Senate: (In still another very fine
hand.) Lentulus habens officium in partibus Iudeae herodis ad sena-
tores romanos hance epistolam deferre iussit—In a coarser hand, 23
lines. Jncip.: Apparuit temporibus nostris et ad huc est homo magne
virtutis nominatus Ihesus Christus.—F7zplic.: et brachia visu delecta-
bilia In colloquio gratus vivit et modestus inter filios hominum (Cf. v.
Dobschiitz, Christusbilder, p. 308**, where a list of manuscripts of this
letter is given.) Below, in a coarser hand, the ink much faded, this
note is written:
Hunc librum quem composuit Reverendus Magister Girardus
senensis Ex suo originali senis [| . . |] existente Reverendus Magister
Martucius de prata extraxit ac propria manu scripsit cum esset
senis tunc baccalaureus: quem quidam magister neapolitanus ex con-
ventu pratensi accepit; postea vero conscientia forte motus: mihi fratri
Augustino de prata neapoli cursori (corr.) existenti reddidit quem deo
duce: ac auxilio virginis marie: et beati patris nostri Augustini nec
non virginis Caterine: totum videbo ac iuxta me retinebo et conventui
nostro pratensi meo in recessu ex hoc mundo relinquam: habui ipsum(?)
Anno Domini 1520: 19: Iunii hane scripturam scripsi sole existente in
septimo gradu canceris: luna vero in septimo gradu virginis: quapropter
deo et virgini gloriosissime mariae immortales gratias ago: ut mihi
semper auxilium praestent: ut in mundo tranquillitatem (or -tis?)
vitam (or -vam ?) postea vero eternam tribuant: per christum dominum
nostrum amen.
(In a finer hand):
Die 24 Istum librum habui ego frater Herennius a fratre augus-
Octobris 15. tino pratensi lectori simul cum ego super epistulas pauli
22. quibus g67(?) dedi ei thomam de argentina et gregorium
ariminensem.
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Thomas of Argentina (Strassburg) ({1357) and Gregory of Ariminum
(flourished 1358) were eminent Augustinians.
5. Index to the Distinctiones, ff. 153a-155b. (In another hand):
Tabula super rescriptum girardi per alphabetum (corr.) collecta quae
incipit a litera . A. The Index is accordingly alphabetical running
from Abas to Universis.
In what is probably another hand, a note of 10 lines; Incip.: Et in
hoe completur hec tabula facta et ordinata [[8 words crossed out]| cum
dei laude.—Exzplic.: 1470 In octava beati Augustini patris nostri aurelii.
Ff. 1566-1600 are blank except that a price-mark in lire is penciled at
the top of f. 1596, and a very fine hand has written at the top of f. 157a
three lines; Incitp.: Queritur utrum Theologia sit practica vel speculativa
et arguitur primo quod sit practica.—Explic.: vacat quia scripsi illam
in alio quinterno.
Three fly-leaves at the beginning of the codex, of smaller size and
whiter paper, are blank and are not included in our reckoning of leaves.
At the head of f. 153a Ih(es)us is written in a fine hand. Gerard of
Siena flourished in 1330 (tca. 1336).
Gu1po DE Monts Rortuertt, Tractatus, etc.
Paper, ff. (16+) 108, cm. 21.3X15.5, single columns, 33-35 lines;
in 11 quires, of 10 except the 11th (8). The leaves are numbered in
mixed Roman and Arabic 1-c4, 1040-108) having originally been left
blank. At the beginning now stand 2 quires of prefatory and other
material, the Ist of 12, the 2d of 4. These are irregularly numbered
(1-9 and 13). The second, ff. 185-140, gives table of contents. 1461.
Label: wanting.
Contents: Guido de Monte Rotherii (Mt. Roteil), Tractatus. With
other material.
The two prefatory quires, ff. 1-16, contain:
1. Utilissimo modo de confessare secundo frate Nicholo da Osino
(Osmo?) del ordine de la observanza de sam Francescho, ff. la-12b
(including the commandments and seven deadly sins). Incip.: Primo
la persona che se vole ben confessare.—Explic.: Quilibet observet
anime medicamina dando, ete. For the most part in Italian, but with
some Latin interspersed.
2. Table of Contents of Guido’s Tractatus, ff. 18a-14b. Incip.:
[IJn isto libello sunt tres particule. Hzplic.: Quartum de dotibus glorie
paradisi C. 4. This quire of 4 leaves, thus inscribed, was the original
prefatory quire of the manuscript. On its blank portions has been
written in a hand not much later:
3. De Interdicto, ff. 140-100. Incip.: Interdictum aliud est
generale aliud particulare—Ezxplic.: vel totaliter relassatur coniura-
mento ut ex( )e. alma ἢ. vi°. etc.
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24.
25.
The body of the manuscript contains certain tractates of Guido
de Monte Rotherii, in three parts: I, De sacramentis, etc., deals with
Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Mass, etc.; II, De paenitentiis, etc.;
III, De fidei articulis, etc.
Prohemium. Incip., f. la: Reverendo in christo patri ac domino
domino Raimundo divina providentia sancte sedis valentie Episcopo
suorum devotorum minimus Guido de monte Rotherii—Ezplic., f. 10:
Scriptum Turoli m. ccc. xxxiii.
Prologus, ff. 1b, 2a. Pars 1, Tract. 1, cap. 1. Incip., f. 2a: Scien-
dum ergo quod omnia sacramenta nove legisf uerunt.—Exzplic., f. 104a:
pro me peccatore ad dominum preces fundat: Laus deo. finitus anno
domini 1461. die. xi. Septembr. hora nona.
The text is followed (1) by a note in an early hand, f. 104a; Incip.:
Nolentes et a(). Licet secundum Legem mosaicam certi dies determinati
fuissent.—Ezplic.: non credimus improbandam. Alexander iij, f. 104α.
(2) by various forms of absolution, ff. 104b-106d, in a large handsome
hand. Incip.: Forma Absolutionis a culpa . et pena. Dominus yhesus
christus per suam sanctam piissimam misericordiam te absolvat.—
Explic.: possent enim ab iniustis iniquis ac iracionabilibus appellari —Ff.
107a-108b blank, except for two geometrical figures on f. 108b.
Various hands have annotated the margins here and there. A
note in a late hand stands at the foot of prefatory f. 1a: Collg. Mut.
Soc. Jesu—This suggests Modena as a former home of the manuscript.—
“Guido de Monte Rotherii vixit anno 1030”? (Du Cange).
Hieronymus, Commentaria in Amos.
Parchment, f. 1, almost complete (in 2 pieces); cm. 33.2X20.5,
2 columns, line and column rulings in ink on both sides. 28 lines.
Century XV?
Used as coverguards in binding Widmanstadt, Novum Testa-
mentum Syriace, Vienna, 1555 (Editio princeps) (accession 15018),
Am. Bible Union. Pp. em. 21X14.3.
Contents: Recto: At the top: amos propheta (in red). Incip.:
autem infirma. Senectus quidem multa.—Ezplic.: Iuravit dominus
deus in sancto suo quia ecce venient. Verso: Incip.: dies super vos.
et levabunt vos in contis.—Explic.: captivitatis miseriis opprimendas
Quodque se[quitur.
A magnificent capital A in red and green on frag. 2.
On frag. 2, successive possessors of the printed book have written
their names with dates 1601, 1620, 1662, 1730.
Cf. ed. Vallarsi, VI, coll. 263-66.
Hizronymus, Explanationes in Ysayam, Excerpta.
Paper, ff. 420, cm. 14.8X10.8. Single columns, 27-29 lines, in
27 quires (including two prefatory) of 16, except nos. 1 (14) and 27 (6).
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Front guard and fly-leaf of parchment. A similar guard (no. 15) has
been removed from back cover, leaving its writing printed off on the
wooden board. Column rulings in ink. Probably written at Erfurt,
in the Carthusian convent; cf. no. 16, used in the binding of this
manuscript. Hengstenberg? 1442.
Label: wanting.—Remains of one brass clasp.
Contents: Hieronymus, Explanationes in Isaiam, Excerpta.
1. Registrum in 18. libros explanacionum sancti Ieronimi in ysayam,
ff. la-30a. Alphabetically arranged.
2. Ex Dictis sancti Ieronimi super ysaiam, ff. 3la-416a. Incip.:
[Yhesus] Christus virtus dei est, deique sapientia.—Ezplic.: mixtam
clemencie suarum indicum Explicit commentariolum excerptum ex 18.
libris explanacionum beati Ieronimi super ysaiam. 1442. Deo gratias
aleluya (these three words with musical notes above them). Below,
in a hand perhaps later: Carbunculus significat ignitum sermonem
doctrine Saphirus doctissimus disputator propugnaculum est ecclesie
laspis est diversi generis. Cristallus est munditia cordis.
3. Appendix: Ex libro 8. explanacionum beati Ieronimi super
ysaiam quaedam notabilia: Incip.: Clemencia dei patris, ff. 417a, ὃ.
—Kindred material from Lyra, etc., ff. 418a, ὃ. Ezplic.: locutus est
de(?) populo ysrael sub nomine unice.
In a fine late hand, foot of f. la: Ex Libris Cartusiae Erfor(diensis?).
The front guard is from an older parchment manuscript, a lection-
ary, and preserves parts of Matt. 25:31-37. JIncip.: ihs discipulis
suis—Ezplic.: te vidimus esurientem et non.—On the parchment
fly-leaf, Kirchenvater 181, and various Latin and German notes; an
early one, on the verso, reads: libellus iste pertinet ad fratres carthu-
sienses prope erffordeam. Continetur hic registrum et extracta libro-
rum sancti Ieronimi super Isayam.
Horae, Latin and French.
Parchment, ff. 126, cm. 12.3X9.4, single columns of 14 lines. 19
quires, of 8, except 12th and 16th (2), 19th (3), Ist, 2d, 7th, and 18th
(6), 5th, 6th, and 15th (7), and 14th (10). There is one quire-signature
(foot of f. 57b); the rest were probably trimmed away when the manu-
script received its present green velvet binding. The pages are elabo-
rately decorated with borders and illuminations, and there are ten
remarkable miniatures in the French (Burgundian 7) style, cm. 5.5X5,
as follows:
F. 13a, The Annunciation.
F, 24a, The Visitation.
F. 36a, The Angels and the Shepherds.
F. 40a, The Adoration of the Magi.
F, 44a, The Holy Family.
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F. 50a, The Flight into Egypt.
F. 54a, The Circumcision.
F. 60a, The Coronation of the Virgin.
F. 65a, Christ Supreme.
F. 83a, Requiem.
Rulings on both sides in red. Berlin Purchase no. 43. University
of Chicago accession 250961. Probably century XV. Professor
Thompson favors a date between 1400 and 1450.
Contents: Latin and French Prayers.
1. Calendar, in French, ff. la—12b. Incip.: Ianwier a xxxi iours.—
Explic.: xii| a | kl’ | Saint sevestre.
2. Latin prayers, ff. 13a-100b. Incip.: f. 13a, Domine labia mea
aperies.
. 24a, Incip.: Deus in adiutorium meum intende.
. 86a, Incip.: Deus in, etc.
. 40a, Incip.: Deus in, etc.
. 44a, Incip.: Deus in, etc.
50a, Incip.: Deus in, ete.
. 54a, Incip.: Deus in, ete.
. 60a, Incip.: Converte nos deus salutaris noster.
. 65a, Incip.: Domine ne in furore tuo arguas.
. 77a letania: Incip.: Kyrie eleyson.
. 83a, Incip.: ant(iphona) Placebo Dilexi quoniam exaudiet domi-
nus.—Erplic.: in vitam eternam amen.
3. French prayers, evidently those of a lady, ff. 100b-1220. Incip.:
Oroison a notre Seigneur.
Tres doulx dieux sire glorieux
Vray ih(es)u crist humbles et piteux.
F. 110a, Incip.: Kyrieleyson Xpisteleyson
Kyrieleyson Letanie en fra(n)cois.
F. 117a, Incip.: Oroison du saint esperit
Veni creator sains esperis.
F. 118a, Incip.: 1 ave maria en fra(n)cois
Ave gracieuse lumiere
Qui tous les desuoyés avoyé.
Explic., f. 1226: Diront ceste ave marie. Amen.
4. Latin prayers and scriptures, ff. 122b-126a. Incip., f. 122d:
O Intemerata et in eternum benedicta singularis et in eternum incom-
parabilis virgo dei genitrix maria.
F. 124a, Incip.: Oratio. Fidelium deus omnium conditor.
F. 125a, Incip.: Inicium sancti evvangelii secundum iohannem
Gloria tibi domine In principio erat verbum.—Exzplic., f. 126a:
plenum gracie et veritatis. Deo gracias.
bas Ff [πὶ Pf ta} [πὶ [πῇ
On the front guard 8195 is written; on the back guard(.... )
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28.
R.P.P.—A clipping from a (Berlin?) printed catalogue, with a
description of the manuscript, is attached to the front paper.
The manuscript is said to have come from Chalons-sur-Marne
(Berlin list) and this may be correct, as the occasional use of w for v
points to northeastern France—Picardy, Artois, Champagne.
Horattvus, Opera.
Paper, ff. 131, cm. 21 Χ 14.5, single columns of 31 lines, in 13 quires,
of 10, except the 13th (originally 12, but the last leaf, probably origin-
ally blank, has been torn out). A pair of fly-leaves at beginning and
end. Titles in red. Capital line-initials. University of Chicago
accession 241962. Century XV.
Label: Horatius MS.
Contents: Horatius, Opera.
1. Odae, Libri IV, ff. la-52a. Oratii venusini poetae Lirici odae
incipiunt (red). Incip.: ad Mecinatem. [Mloecenas atavis edite
regibus.
2. Epodi, ff. 52a-62b. Libri Carminum finiunt. Incipit Epodon.
Ad Mecenatem (red). Jncip.: Ibis Liburnis inter alta navium.
3. Carmen Saeculare, ff. 62b-63b. Incipit Carmen Seculare (red).
Incip.: Phoebe silvarum potensque Diana.
4. Ars Poetica, ff. 64a-71b. Incipit liber artis poetice Ad Pisonem
et Filios eius (red). Incip.: humano capite cervicem pictor equinam.
5. Epistolae, ff. 72a-96b. Incipit Liber Epistolarum (red). Incip.:
prima dict|[a]]e mihi summa dicende camena.
6. Sermones, ff. 97a-131b. Incipit Liber Sermonum (red). Incip.:
quo (qui corr.) fit Moecenas ut nemo quam sibi sorte——Ezplic.:
Canidior afflasset peior serpentibus afris. τέλως
Spaces have been left for large initials, but have not been filled. The
Carmina, Epodi, Carmen Saeculare, and parts of the Epistolae have
been copiously annotated in an early hand. Inside the first cover, is a
book plate: a coat of arms, supported by female figures with anchors,
surmounted by a coronet, a bar, globe, and rainbow: the mottoes,
Tria juncta in uno; and, below, At spes non fracta. T-15 is written
on the book plate; P. 4. 9. on fly-leaf i a.
Istporus Hispauensis, Contra Iudaeos.
Paper, ff. 55, em. 21.515.5, single columns, 25 lines. 7 quires of
10, except Ist (2), and 7th (3). F.1lablank. Rulings on ff. 16, 2a only.
Quire signatures below the middle of last line of last versos. 1543.
Label: wanting. The manuscript is without a binding.
Contents: Isidori Toletani Episcopi, Contra Iudaeos, libri duo.
1. Chapter titles, Lib. 1, ff. 10-26. Incip.: [Qluia Christus a deo
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patre genitus est, ii (the prologue is numbered i).—Ezplic.: Super-
dictio premissi operis lviij.
2. Lib. 1, ff. 3a-30b. Incip.: Prologus .1. Quedam divans: tempori-
bus in veteris testamenti libris prenuntiata sunt de nativitate domini.—
Explic.: regnum atque iudicium declaravimus. Explicit liber primus.
3. Chapter titles, Lib. 2, ff. 30b-3la. JIncip.: Incipiunt capitula
secundi libri. De gentium vocatione .1.—EHyzplic.: Quia panis et
calicis testimonium futurum esset in holocaustum xxv.
4. Lib. 2, ff. 31a-55b. Incip.: Prologus. Quedam experte domini
atque salvatoris nativitatem—Hzplic.: Tabernaculum dei sancti
eius sunt in quibus habitat in eternum. Amen. Explicit liber Ysidori
Toletani episcopi contra iudeos. Amen. 1543. die 22° Iunii.
The Idisore meant is of course Isidore of Seville, born ca. 560, died
636. Toletani Episcopi is a mistake, possibly due to the fact that he
presided over several synods held at Toledo, or to the treatment of his
life and writings in the Viri Illustres of his pupil Ildefonso of Toledo, or
to the fact that copious use of Isidore’s booklet was made in a book of
the same title, Contra Iudaeos, written by Julian of Toledo. On
Isidore’s life and writings, cf. R. Schmid, Isidor von Sevilla, in P.R.E.?,
and Kaulen, art. ‘“Isidor,” in the Kirchenlexikon. The best edition
of Isidore’s complete works is that of Faustinus Arevalus, Rome, 1797-
1803, reprinted in Migne, S.L. 81-83, where the Contra Iudaeos is
treated in the “Isidoriana,” II, LXVI, vol. 81, coll. 429-433, and the
text printed in vol. 83, coll. 449-538. The text of the present manuscript
is not of the best. The error Toletanus for Hispalensis (or Spalensis)
is found in a number of manuscripts of Contra Iudaeos (cf. Arevalus,
in Migne, 8.L. 81, col. 433, and 83, col. 450, note), e.g., in Arevalus’
Cod. MS. Florentin. I.
IvvENaL, Satirae.
Parchment, ff. 98, cm. 17.6X11.6, single columns, 20 lines, rulings
on the hair side. 10 quires, of 10, except the 10th (8). The manuscript
is properly made, hair sides facing hair sides. A carefully illuminated
initial begins Satire 1 of Lib. 1., f. la. Lesser illuminations at the
beginning of each satire. Berlin Purchase no. 22. Dated at Florence,
November 28, 1441.
Label: Juvenalis MS.—The old binding of beautifully tooled leather,
over boards, has been strengthened at the back with a piece of leather
from another binding previously inscribed Testam. Vet. tom. I.
Contents: D. Iunii Iuvenalis Aquinatis Libri V. Incip.: D. Iunii
Tuvenalis Aquinatis, Liber Satirarum Incipit. Semper ego auditor.—
Explic.: Quis nescit volusci. crudeles ultima mores. τέλος
Lib. 1, ff. 1α-2θα.
Lib. 2, ff. 26b-42b.
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Lib. 3, ff. 42b-59a.
Lib. 4, ff. 59a-77a.
Lib. 5, ff. 77a-97b.
At the end of the text, f. 97b: Iunii iuvenalis Aquinatis liber quintus
et ultimus, quod bono sit omine, finit florentiae 1441 xxviii novembris.—
Following this, a table of contents, ff. 970, 98a, as follows:
Liber primus
Semper ego auditor. castigat prima poetas
Ultra sauromathas. fictos virtute secunda.
Quamvis digressu. magna terna pericula romae
Ecce iterum crispinus. mundanos quarta nitentes
Si te propositi. parasitum quinta voracem.
Liber Secundus
Credo pudicitiam. cupientem sexta pudicem.
Liber Tercius
Et spes et ratio. spernentes septima vates
Stemata quid faciunt. octava parente superbos.
Scire velim quare. sodomitum nevola nona
Liber Quartus
Omnibus in terris. bis quina nocentia vota.
Atticus eximiae. caenas undena voraces.
Natali corvine die. bissena pusillos
Liber Quintus
Exemplo flentes. rem tercia dena negatam.
Plurima sunt fusine. bisseptima prava sequentes.
Quis numerare queat. sevos tarquina quirites.
Quis nescit volusci. crudeles ultima mores.
τέλος
On the rectos a modern hand has penciled page numbers, 1, 3, 5, etc.,
to 199. 77 and 79 are omitted. A fly-leaf of thicker parchment,
preceding the first quire, bears the name of a former owner, Weglewski
2(2)
Zygmunt, and the mark age. The last fly-leaf has at the top of the
verso: Ruberto ferr 8. Ercole Cori(?). On the inside of the last
cover: salma, partly erased, and in a diminutive hand, Comes.
Scholia, not quite of the usual type, are written in the margins in
many places, in a fine, regular hand, much like that of the text.
Lzo Maenus, Sermones.
Parchment, ff. 135, with fly-leaf at beginning and end, em. 27.3
18.5, single columns, 37 lines, 14 quires, of 10, except 11th (8). Quires
1 and 3 have lost the first leaf, that before f. 1, and that after f. 19;
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quire 14 has lost its last leaf, that which followed f. 188. Edges gilt.
Binding shows remains of four brass clasps. At lower right hand of
rectos an old leaf-numbering appears, 60-65, on ff. 31-36, also 92 on f. 73.
At upper right-hand corner of rectos is a later leaf-numbering, made
before the first leaf was lost, and meant to be continuous, but in fact
inaccurate and misleading. The first hand, round and open, gives way
with the turn of f. 118 to (f. 118) a much more compact and angular
hand, which completes the manuscript. Rulings on the flesh side.
Berlin Purchase no. 19. Probably century XV.
Label: Sermones S. Lleo[nlis Mafgni. (In style like nos. 2 and 5.)
Contents: Sermones divi Leonis papae (in an old hand at head of
f. 1a). The only gaps are where the first or last leaves of quires are
wanting, one before f. 1, one after f. 19, and one after f. 133. Incip.:
dei nostri clementiam supplices obsecrare.—Ezplic.: non possunt quid
humanitati ascribere quid.
The first sermon of this collection, De Natali ipsius 8. Leonis 1,
evidently corresponded to sermons 1 and 2 in Migne’s edition, and
occupied the first leaf, now wanting. The present f. la preserves the
closing eight lines of this sermon—dei nostri clementiam supplices—
Per christum dominum nostrum. The 93 sermons are in general those
that appear in the Migne edition and stand with few exceptions in the
order of that edition; thus Migne’s 64 and 66 stand between his 62 and
63. Sermons numbered 5, 11, and 20 in Migne were not included in
this collection. The loss of one leaf between ff. 19 and 20 has removed
part of Sermon 18 (Migne’s 22), ch. 4, 5a, omnipotensque [Salvator
. commoda] utentibus. Sermon 93 (Migne’s 96) breaks off with:
humanitati ascribere quid[ , the last leaf of the manuscript being
wanting. The rest of Sermon 93, ch. 2 fin. and 3, would fill but half
a page, and leave room for another short sermon, but the collection
probably closed with 93. There are a few marginal notes referring to
Cicero, Seneca, Jerome, etc. Ih(es)us is written at the head of the
verso of the first fly-leaf. Each sermon begins with an illuminated
capital.
At the top of the recto of the last fly-leaf is a note: Qui studium agri-
colandi dederit: antiquissima sciat haec sibi advocanda [ ] facultatem
impendendi: voluntatem agendi: nam is demum cultissimum rus.
[ ] Tremellius: qui et colere sciet: et poterit: et volet:
Lronarpus ARETINUS, De Primo Bello Punico.
Paper, ff. 113, cm. 21.2X14.3, single columns, 27 lines, 12 quires, of
10, except the Ist (8) and 12th (5), which serve as fly-leaves and form
no part of the manuscript proper. Rulings on the verso. The usual
quire signatures. Ff. i-vii, 98a-105b blank. F. viiia scribbled over
with a hard point. Berlin Purchase no. 39. Probably century XV.
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32.
Label: Aretini De Bello Punico.—The binding is of boards, with
parchment guards and leather back, and remains of a brass and leather
clasp. At the foot of the back, on a paper label cm. 1.9 square, ὅν.
Inside front cover, on the parchment guard, Leonardi arretini de primo
bello punico Thome de Vicentiis de Fano 1560.
Contents: Leonardi Aretini, De primo Bello Punico, libri tres.
1. Leonardi Aretini de primo bello punico: Liber primus. Ff. 1a-63b.
Incip.: [VJereor ne qui me putent antiqua nimium consertari—Ezplic.:
numquam maioribus copiis quam hoc bello mari pugnatum intelligent.
2. Incipit Liber Secundus (red). Ff. 630-806. Incip.: [Flinito
Primo punico bello quod viginti quatuor annos terra marique gestum
ostendimus.—Exzplic.: Matho captivique alii in triumphum ducti et
supplitio affecti sunt.
3. Incipit Liber Tertius (red). Ff. 800-976. Incip.: [Plost pacem
igitur in Sicilia cum Romanis factam.—Ezplic.: regione tota praeter
admodum pauca loca excedere iussi sunt. Finis.
Space has been left for a few large initials which have not been
supplied. F. viiid has this note, in a much later hand. Leonardo Bruni
di Arezzo che va sotto il nome di Leonardo Aretino mori nel 1444 in
Firenze essendo Camelliere Della Republica Fiorentina. Occasional
marginal captions serve as guides to the contents. On f. 1130 in the
upper left-hand corner is a mark, probably a dealer’s: de o-bot zo.
LEonaRDUS ARETINUS, LAURENTIUS DE PENSAURO, ET AL.,
Opuscula Varia.
Paper, ff. 49, cm. 29.5 22, single columns, 35-49 lines, in 5 quires of
10, except Ist (9), in nine different hands. The quires are continuous.
Berlin Purchase no. 87. Century XV-XVI.
Label: wanting.
Contents: 1. An address (of Ser Bellus Angeli de Callio?) to the
members of some body at Assisi, f. ia. Incip.: Magnifici et Excelsi
Segnori quantumquam Inspecto de tanta magnificentia conosca se
convenisse parlare per leteram Niente da meno.—Ezplic.: Adonqua
per mostrare voglia pigliare de larie senza penne.
2. Address of Ser Bellus Angeli de Callio, ff. la-2b. Incip.: Mil-
lesimo cccc®. xi die primo mensis Septembris Inscripta diceria fuit
conpillata et Recitata per me Bellum S(e)r Angeli de Callio In civitate
assisii in In(t)roitu dominorum priorum dicte civitatis
Ipsique in puppibus altis
Ductores longe effulgent aureque decori
Virgilius in v®.
Magnifici Segnori et voy Altri Nobili et Egregie [[Citadini]] et Spechi-
osi Citadini—Ezplic.: ad morte extriminio et perpetuo confusione de
chi volesse el contrario et cussy piacci a dio che sya Amen.
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3. Address of Ser Bellus Angeli de Callio, ff. 3a-4a. Incip.: Alla
diceria conpillata et Recitata per me Bellum Antedictum eodem anno
die prima mensis novembris in Introitu aliorum novorum priorum
Assisii. Ecce constitui te super gentes.—Ezplic.: E cusy piaccia dio
che sya per infinita saecula saeculorum Amen.
4, Three Latin addresses, probably of Laurentius de Pensauro,
delivered at Florence, ff. 4b-5b. Incip.: Magnificorum astantium con-
spectus frequens.—Ezplic.: Iustis muneribus decorabit. Ad laudem dey
Amen.
5. Address of Laurentius de Pensauro to the Florentines, ff. 6a-.
Incip.: Quando Ego Laurentius de pensauro Intravi po(r)tas (potestas?)
Florentie. In nomine patris filii et spiritus sa(n)cti ac beate marie
semper virginis et Johannis baptiste nominibus invocatis.—Ezplic.: Ad
laudem dei excelsi Amen.
6. Five paragraphs: De Justitia, Fide, etc., f. 6b.
7. Sermo. Incip.: Soleo heroes praestantissimi civesque conspicui,
f. 7a.
8. Resposta [[f]] de la Signoria de fiorenze facta ad li ambasciadori
de Re de ragona fece dicta Resposta leonardo bruni in uno grandissimo
consiglio de Citadini, ff. 7b-9b.
9. De Laudibus florentinis libellus per Leonardum aretinum editus,
ff. 90-200.
10. Leonardus aretinus ex historia heliogabali augusti, ff. 21a-23b.
—Argumentum.—Oratio Heliogabali Augusti ad Meretrices.
11. Leonardus aretinus, On Leading Men of His Times, ff.
24a-43a. Incip.: Qui per Italiam homines excelluerint aetate mea.
—To it is appended Leonardi Arretini epitaphium, in 16 lines of
verse. "
12. Sermo domini Laurentii de Terentiis de pensauro. In Introitu
dominorum florentinorum dum essem in potestam, ff. 43b-45a. Incip.:
Euripides poeta, patres conscripti et clarissimi cives.
13. Address to the Florentines by d(ominus) L(aurentius), ff. 46a-
47a. Incip.: Quotiens jocundissimum conspectum vestrum intueor
patres conscripti—Ezplic.: Ad laudem et gloriam eius qui est trinus et
unus in secula seculorum Amen. Another similar address follows, ff.
47a-49a. The two addresses are separated by a prayer in Italian and
by a note at the head of the second, f. 47a: Quia praedicatus sermo non
fuit recitatus per dictum d(ominum) L(aurentium) cum ad officium
capitanei spectet confaloneria dare ideo dictus d(ominus) Laurentius
in novo prioratu infra scriptum sermonem recitavit. Incip.: Quotiens
iocundissimum conspectum vestrum intueor Magnifici(?) domini ac
prestantissimi cives.—Ezplic.: Ad Laudem sempiterni dei qui est
trinus et unus per infinita secula. There are occasional marginal notes
in different hands.
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34.
Lucanus, Pharsalia.
Paper, ff. 146, cm. 29X21.5, single columns, 27-32 lines, in 15
quires of 10, except 2d (8), 9th (11), 12th (8), 15th (9). Rulings on
both sides. Berlin Purchase no.17. Probably century XV.
Label: Lucan. Phars. MSS. SOE. XV.
Contents: Lucan’s Pharsalia, ten books, complete, with scholia on
Lib. 1-3. Incip.: Bella per emathios plusquam civilia campos.—
Ezplic.: Obscedit muris calcentem menia magni. At the head of f. 1a,
in another hand, is the Epitaphion Lucani:
Corduba me genuit: rapuit nero: prelia dixi
Que gessere pares hinc socer. inde gener.
Continuo nunquam direxi carmina ductu:
Que tractim serpant. plus mihi coma placet.
The books occupy the following folia:
Lib. 1, ff. 1a-13b. Lib. 6, ff. 72 a- 870.
Lib. 2, ff. 130-274. Lib. 7, ff. 876-1030.
Lib. 3, ff. 27a-42a, Lib. 8, ff. 1036-1190.
Lib. 4, ff. 42a-57a. Lib. 9, ff. 1190-137a.
Lib. 5, ff. 57a-72a. Lib. 10, ff. 137a-146b.
There is a continuous leaf-numbering in red in a later hand. A price
mark in lire has been penciled inside the last cover. Occasional variants
are noted beside the text.
Petrus. VERONENSIS, Rubricae.
Paper, ff. ii+647, cm. 22X16, single columns, 22-31 lines, 57 quires,
of 12, except Ist, 2d, and 6th (of 2), 52d (8), and 57th (11). An old
quire lettering A-Z, aa—wu, begins with quire 15, f. 137a, and continues
to the end. The letter stands at the lower outer corner of the first
rectos. On f. 2 an old leaf numbering begins to appear with 174,
continuing to 469 (=296) then omitting 20 nos. and passing to 490
(=297) thence continuing to 837 (=644). Over this a later leaf
numbering 1-644 has been written. This later leaf-numbering is on the
whole correct, the omission of 189 making up for the repetition of 146.
The three remaining leaves (645a-647b) are blank, as is f. iia, ὃ. No
rulings. Berlin Purchase no. 30. 1519.
Label: Ὁ. Petrus Veron(onensis) C. R. Super 4™ et 5" Decr(etalium).
The binding is pigskin, and there were two pairs of thongs for tying the
book shut.
Contents: Petrus Veronensis, Rubricae super quartum et quintum
decretalium.
I. Index titulorum, ff. ia-b. Incip.: Accusatoribus 138.—Exzplic.:
Usuris 307. Finis. The table is imperfectly alphabetical, and includes
short titles of 63 rubrics.
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11. Super 4° et 5° Decretalium. F. 1a. De Sponsalibus et Matri-
moniis. Incipit Liber Quartus Decretalium. (These four words
written over a line in a smaller hand.) Rubrica de Sponsalibus et
Matrimoniis. Incip.: Sponsalia sive futurarum nuptiarum promissio,
f. 1b.—Ezplic.: ut decla(rat?) Car(olus) Alexa(ndrinus) in d. c. gg.
(=Gregorii?). Another hand has added: Finis Decretalium. Percurri
has ann(otation)es in decretali(a) et videntur conformare fidei catholicae
In cuius rei fidem es Neap(olis) xxx Junii 1519
Jo(hannes) Fr. Comb(efius)
pro Reverendissimo Vicario
In the references below we have followed the fol. numbering of the
manuscript. The rubrics are not numbered in the manuscript.
Incipit Liber Quartus Decretalium.
. De Sponsalibus et Matrimoniis, ff. 1b-26d.
. De Observatione jeiuniorum, ff. 27a—29b.
. De desponsatione impuberum, ff. 30a—41a.
. De clandestina Desponsatione, ff. 41a—43b.
. De Sponsa duorum, ff. 44a-47a.
De Condicionibus Appositis, etc., ff. 47a-52b.
- Qui clerici vel voventes Matr(imonium) contr(ahere) pos(sint),
ff. 52b-59a.
8. De eo qui duxit in matri(monium) quam pol(luit) per adulte-
r(iam), ff. 59a-65a.
9. De Coniugio Leprosorum, ff. 65a-67a.
10. De coniugio Servorum, ff. 674-700.
11. De Natis ex libero ventre, ff. 70b—71a.
12. De cognatione spirituali, ff. 71a—-77b.
13. De Cognatione legali, ff. 77b-78b.
14. De eo qui cognovit consanguineam uxoris su(a)e vel spons(a)e,
ff. 78b-85a.
15. De Consang(uinitate) et affinitate, ff. 85a-92b.
16. De frigidis et maleficiatis et impotentia coeundi, ff. 920-980.
17. De Matrimonio contrac(to) cont(ra) inter(dictum) eccl(esiae),
ff. 98b-102a.
18. Qui filii sint Legitimi, ff. 102a-118b.
19. Qui matrimonium accusare possunt, etc., ff. 118b-124b.
20. De Divortiis, ff. 1246-130a.
21. De donationibus inter virum et uxorem, etc., ff. 130a—-135a.
22. De Secundis nuptiis, ff. 135a-137b.
Incipit Liber Quintus:
23. De Accusationibus Inquisitionibus et Denunciationibus, ff. 138a-
155d.
24. De Calumniatoribus, ff. 156a-157a. -
25. De Simonia, ff. 1576-1946.
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Ne prelati vices (id est iurisdictionem suppl.) suas vel ecclesias
sub annuo censu concedant, ff. 194b-197a.
De Magistris et ne aliquid exigatur pro Licentia docendi, ff. 197b-
202b.
De iudeis et Saracenis et eorum Servis, ff. 203a—216d.
De Hereticis, ff. 217a-235b.
De Schismaticis, etc., ff. 235b-2380.
De Apostatis et reiteran(tibus) bap(tisma?), ff. 238b-244a.
De his qui filios occiderunt, ff. 244a-246a.
De Infantibus et Languidis expositis, ff. 246a-247a.
De Homicidio casuali vel voluntario, ff. 2476-276.
De Torneamentis, ff. 276a-278b.
De Clericis pugnantibus in d(u)ello, ff. 279a-281b.
De Sagittariis, ff. 281b-283a.
De adulteriis et stupro, ff. 283a—-292b.
De Raptoribus, incendiariis et violatoribus ecclesiarum, ff.
292b-300b.
De Furtis, ff. 301a-307a.
De Usuris, ff. 307a-326b.
De Crimine falsi, ff. 3266-3370.
De Sortilegiis, ff. 337b-342a.
De Collusione detegenda, ff. 342a-345b.
De Delictis puerorum, ff. 345b-347b.
De Clerico Venatore, ff. 348a-349b.
De Clerico percussore, ff. 350a-352a.
De Maledicis, ff. 352b-355a.
De clerico exco(mmun)icato, deposito, vel interdicto ministrante,
ff. 355a-369a.
De clerico non ordina(to) ministra(nte), ff. 369a-371b.
De clerico per saltum promoto, ff. 371b-372b.
De eo qui furtive ordi(nem) sus(cepit), ff. 372b-375a.
De Excessibus prelatorum et subditorum, ff. 375b-397a.
De Novi operis nunciatione, ff. 397a-401a.
De privilegiis et excessibus privilegiatorum, ff. 401a-435b.
De Purgatione Cano(nica), ff. 436a—450a.
De Purgatione Vulga(ri), ff. 4506-4540.
De Iniuriis et damno dato, ff. 455a-466a.
De Penis, ff. 466b-481a.
De Penitentiis οὐ Remissionibus, ff. 4816-5170.
De sententia excommunicationis, ff. 517b-5938a.
De verborum Significatione, ff. 593a-633a.
De regulis iuris, ff. 633a-6440.
The manuscript is very irregularly written, and is doubtless the
original writing of Petrus Veronensis. On f. 1a, below the title, a later
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hand has written Vincentius Paganus, which has been crossed out. A
price mark in lire is penciled on the last verso.
Pocaius, Lronarpus, Guarinus, Opuscula Varia.
Paper, ff. 128, cm. 28.8 20.4, single columns, 24 lines, in 17 quires,
of 8, except 12th (6), and 13th (2). The quire lettering, A, B, etc.,
beginning again with the 14th, shows that we have here two manuscripts
from the same hand, and at some time bound up as one. To the second
of these quire 13 served as fly-leaves. Rulings on one side. Berlin
Purchase no. 36. Century XV.
Label: (On the edges as in the Escorial manuscripts) Pog. Invect.
in. Val.—On the back of the one remaining (rear) wooden cover: Poggii
Invectivae Contra Laurentium.
Contents: Latin Works of Various Humanists: Poggio, Leonardo,
Guarino.
1. Poggii Florentini Oratio Prima in Laurentium Vallam incipit.
Si quibus in rebus honestum est consensuque omnium permissum
iniuriam propulsare, ff. 1α-21α.
Oratio secunda, ff. 21b-54a. Oratio quarta, ff. 636-77.
Oratio tertia, ff. 540-63d. Oratio quinta, ff. 78b-89b.
Explic.: in quos ego sinu ibi innotuerint liberius ac licentius eva-
gabor. Poggii Florentini oratio quinta et ultima in Laurentium Vallam
Explicit.
2. Epistola Leonardi Aretini ad ilustrem mulierem Baptistam de
Malatis (es corr.) de {[in]] litteris ac studiis humanitatis, ff. 97a-109b.
Incip.: Compulsus crebro rumore admirabilium virtutem tuarum
scribere ad te constitui—Explic.: conferre tecum volui opinionem meam
et currentem ut aiunt ad gloriam cohortari. vale. Finis.
3. Incipit Prefatio Guarini Veronensis in Plutarcum, ff. 110a, ὃ.
Maiores nostros Angelemi suavissime non admirari et maximis pro-
sequi laudibus non possum.—Exzplic.: Sed de his alias. Plutarcum
audiamus.
4. De liberis educandis incipit e Greco in latinum a Guarino viro
veronense doctissimo traduct(us?), ff. 11la-128a. Incip.: Quid nam
est quod de ingenuorum educatione liberorum dicere quispiam posset.—
Explic.: at humano effici posse constat ingenio. Finis.
A handsomely illuminated capital stands at the beginning of each
oration or treatise, that at the beginning of the manuscript being espe-
cially elaborate. The marginal notes on Poggius exhibit a different
hand from that which annotated the other works. Inside the rear and
only remaining cover are three notes in other hands. At the top:
historia [| pog]] Laurentii Valle de gestis Aragonum regis. At the bottom:
Io(hann)is Antonii de Benedictis de Neap(oli) emptus de mense Julio
1579 a Io(hann)e Bap(tis)ta Ruffo bibliopola Neap(olita)no. Beside it,
perhaps as a price mark: carlenis quindecim.
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37.
Receptarium de Medicinis, with miscellaneous remedies and pre-
scriptions.
Paper, ff. 195, em. 25.319, two columns, 25-27 lines, 25 quires, of
8, except the Ist (4), 22d (6), and 23d (9). Leaves numbered 1-8, of
which ff. 1-5 were originally left blank. A new numbering begins with
f. 6, thence continuing (1—(191, though with occasional confusions and
transpositions after f. 163, the manuscript’s folio (158, with which the
original Latin text comes to an end. Rough rulings, or rather under-
linings, on both sides. Ff. 175 and 182 are half torn away. Berlin
Purchase no. 26. Century XV-XVI.
Label: ...... ] Segreti Antichi.
Contents: Receptarium De Medicinis, ff. 6a—163a. The margins of
this text and the originally blank leaves before and after it, ff. 1-5,
1636-195b, have been written over in numerous cursive hands with
recipes, remedies, and prescriptions of all sorts, for the most part in
Italian. Recipes are given for ink, soap, white sugar, hair-restorers
and dyes, cosmetics, colors, etc., and remedies for dog-bite and a host of
complaints. Incip.: Sequitur receptarium De medicinis communiter
usitatis per medicos, tam phisicos quam cirurgicos, que communiter
reperiuntur penes aromatarios, preparatae, et hoc secundum mesue,
nicolaum, galienum, rasim, avicennam, et aliorum auctorum Dicta Et
prime De electuariis secundum antidotarium Domini mesue, f. 6a.—
Explic.: et subito recepit tantum sudorem ut venenum totum exalet
evacuationi universali prius facta. Finis. Εἰ. 163q.
Added material, Incip., f. la: Recipe Corti ligni guainei—z 4.—
Explic.: chi sia como ung(?). There are some hundreds of these mis-
cellaneous prescriptions, in a great variety of hands, written prob-
ably by successive owners or at least users of the book. A bit of Hebrew
appears on f. 176b. A list of 49 famous medical authorities from Hip-
pocrates to Platina occupies f. 5a. At the head of f. 170a In Napoli is
written. Ff. 1685-1696 are occupied with a series of Latin paragraphs
entitled, Quid est medicina que medetur egris. Among the miscella-
neous marginal titles are Da far’ gelo, f. 8b; Per far’ una Copeta come
se fa In ferrara cosa eletta, f. 12b; A fare azurro oltra marino, f. 21a;
Per far’ nascier’ li pili dove non nascie, f. 24a; per le cubebe la cassia,
f. 30a; ad seccar’ porri delle mani, f. 330; Per far’ pasta da marzapani
fina et bona, f. 48b; A dolor de podagre, f. 58a; Uno oglio de semo de
Cino, f. 62a; per la memoria bona, f. 146b. Un acqua molta nobilis-
sima per far’ belle le donne, f. 192a.
Fly-leaf 1a is inscribed 51 at the top, and, in the same hand, 1571
at the bottom.
ANTONIUS DE Rano, In Rubricas Soluto Matrimonio.
Paper, ff. 152, cm. 43X28, double columns, 50-64 lines, 16 quires, of
10, except the Ist and 2d (9), 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th (8). Quire signa-
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tures of six or more words stand at right angles to the lines, at the lower
right-hand corner of last versos. There is a leaf-numbering, probably
contemporary. Rulings usually on both sides. Ff. 7b and 8a left
blank. Berlin Purchase no. 29. 1482.
Label: Antonius De Raho super Rubr. Sol. Matri—On the recto of
the fly-leaf, in a later hand, Antonius de Raho Auditor Generalis et
Consiliarius Regis Federici Aragonii In Rubricas Soluto Matrimonio
In Auditorio Sa(n)cti Laurentii Doctor et Lector Anno Domini MCD
‘LXXXII 1482 Omnia in calce operis——Soluto Matrimonio, in a small
hand, stands near the leaf-number on most of the rectos of the manu-
script.
Contents: Antonio de Raho, In Rubricas Soluto Matrimonio, De
Liberis et Postumis. Occasional headings stand out in rude capitals:
Causa Dotis. f. θα, Soluto Ma(trimonio), f. 11a, Quod Si In Patris, f. 14a,
Voluntatem f. 170, Non solum, f. 19b, De Divisione, f. 21b, ete. Incip.:
In glossa rubrice praesens glossa [[dividi?]] potest in quinque partes In
prima enim ponitur duplex continuatio—Explic.: in legitimacione quae
fit per comitem palatinum vide hoc per eum in ultima columpna.
The Matrimonio Soluto occupies ff. la-141b. At the foot of f. 1410
another hand has written: Die ultimo Iunii xv Ind(ictionis) in(carna-
tionis) 1482: dominus antonius de raho complevit Institutiones prae-
sentes, titulum soluto matrimonio sed in voce ante multos dies eum
complevit.
Rubrica de liberis et postumis, ff. 142a-152b, concludes the volume.
At the foot of the last verso, another hand has written: Die 6 mensis
Julii 15e Ind. 1482 sub augusta regis ferdinandi pace dominus antonius
de raho in auditorio sancti laurentii hic punctavit qui habuit concurren-
tem dominum petrum de fundis qui paucis diebus legit et postea ob
paucitatem studencium demisit et [[am{|amplius non legit—This may
be Pietro di Fondi, poet at Naples in the fifteenth century.
The wide margins accommodate numerous notes in various hands.
The book was probably the lecture book of de Raho, or possibly a stu-
dent’s copy of his lectures. On f. 1000, in the lower margin a hand of
the same period as the rest of the volume has indited a scurrilous poem
of 8 lines after the style of Martial: “Ad antonium de raho amicum
optimum.”
A printed pamphlet dealing with the de Raho family has been bound
into the back of the manuscript: Subsidiariae Velitationes adversus
Molossos mordentes lapidem. Auctore D. Olao Chardero. Neapoli,
MDCXCVI.—Pp. 28. Mention of Antonio de Raho on p. 18.
2 Reg. 19:37—22:18.
Parchment, 1 f., mutilated at top and outer side through use in
binding, cm. 30.2 26.6, double columns, now of 37 lines, but originally
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of 55 or 56, 17 or 18 lines being lost from the top of each column.
Rulings on the hair side. The hand is large and shapely, with three
marginal capitals in red. There are the usual abbreviations. Berlin
Purchase no. 24. Probably century XV.
Contents: Parts of 11 Kings 19:37-22:13, in the Latin Vulgate.
Col. 1: 19:37—20:10, nijJneve cumque adoraret in templo neserach
. - ~~ nec hoe volo ut faciat’ sed αὐ
Col. 2: 20:14—21:5, venelrunt de babylone .. . . universae
militiae caeli in duobus atriis [
Col. 3: 21:106-21, diceJ]n[s] Quia fecit manases rex .. . per
quam ambulaverat pater eius [
Col. 4: 22:2-13, ]d(omi)no’ et ambulavit per [omnes vias david]
patris sui’ . . . . magna enim ira d(omi)ni [
After 19:37 a somewhat later hand has written: omnia xxv. Oppo-
site 21:18 a still later hand has written: Tanta nequitia ad aures meas
de tua senectute pervenit. vi.
Rubricae De accusationibus, etc.
Paper, ff. 190, em. 31X21.4, double columns, 37-39 lines, in 16
quires, of 12, except the 2d, 9th, and 16th, (10), 7th (6), and 13th (22).
Quire signatures below middle margin of last versos. A leaf-numbering
at the upper right-hand corner of each recto, and near it usually a brief
title, De accusa(tionibus), De Symonia, etc. Rulings on both sides.
Ff. 66a, 76a, ὃ, are blank. Berlin Purchase. Probably century XV.
Label: wanting. The quires are still stitched together, but have
lost their cover. An oval slip printed in blue, like those on nos. 2, 6,
12, 14, 17, 18, 47, 54, 63, 65, is at the foot of the back.
Contents: Rubricae de Accusationibus, Simonia, etc.
Title: De Accusationibus Inquisitionibus et Denuntiationibus
Rubrica. Above, in a finer hand, Iacobus de Rochis super(?)......
Incip.: Ista rubrica habet tres partes, primo de accusa(tionibus),
f. la.—Exzplic.: consuetudinem contrariam G. . . de consue. ὁ. 1. et
ul., f. 189a@ (on the note f. 1890 see below).
1. De accusationibus, inquisitionibus, et denuntiationibus, ff. le-
26a.
. De calumpniatoribus, ff. 26), 27a.
De symonia, ff. 27a—41a.
. Ne prelati vices suas sub annuo censu concedant, ff. 41a—42b.
De magistris, ff. 42b-43b.
. De Iudeis et Saracenis et eorum servis, ff. 430-46a.
. De hereticis, ff. 460-540.
. De scismaticis, ff. 540-55b.
. De apostatis et reiterantibus baptismum, ff. 550-57b. After
the close of the 9th rubric, f. 57b, col. 1, the subsequent rubrics are intro-
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duced by this note: Supra primis 4° rubricis visum est de h(ominib)us
qui peccant in deo videndum erat subsequenter de h(ominib)us qui
peccant in homine et subsequenter in deo, i.e., de homicidio. Et quia
inter omnia alia genera homicidiorum gravius est filii homicidium
ideo primo subicitur hec Rubrica. vel secundo sic et brevius quia post
preceptum de colendo deum et honorando parentes. primum est nega-
tivum non occides deuteronomii 3°—etc., habetur materia ..... 4,
3a consuluisti.
10. (Without heading.) Incip.: Veniens. Mulier sponte occidens
filium, ff. 57b-58a. This and the following on ff. 576-59a, as well as
61a, ὃ, and 66b ff. are in a clearer, more open hand.
11. De Infantibus et Languidis expositis, ff. 58a-59a.
12. De homicidio voluntario vel casuali, ff. 59b-65b.
13. De adulterio et stupro, ff. 66b-68a.
14. De raptoribus et violatoribus ecclesiarum, ff. 68b-69b.
15. De furtis, ff. 69b-70a.
16. De usuris, ff. 70a-75b. A marginal note on f. 75b indicates
that the paragraphs on that page should precede the paragraph begin-
ning Naviganti, f. 74b; f. 76 is blank.
17. De crimine falsi, ff. 77a-78b. In a different hand, heavier than
either of those preceding. Under the heading is a note, which connects
these rubrics with the preceding, as follows: Continuatur hoc modo
Quia in decalogo post praeceptum negativum non furtum facies sequitur
etiam non falsum testimonium dicas, etc.
18. De sortilegis, ff. 78b-79b.
19. De collusione detegenda, ff. 79b-80b.
20. De delicto puerorum, ff. 80b-81a.
21. De clerico venatore, ff. 8la-81b.
22. De clerico percussore, ff. 81b-82a.
23. De maledicis, ff. 82a—82b.
24. De clerico excommunicato vel deposito ministrante, ff. 82b-85a.
25. De clerico per saltum promoto, ff. 850-86b; a marginal note
refers f. 85b, col. 2 to a Rubrica de eo qui ordinem furtive suscepit.
26. De excessibus prelatorum, etc., ff. 87a—94b.
27. De novi operis nuntiatione, ff. 94b-97a.
28. De privilegiis et excessibus privilegiatorum, ff. 97a-114b(?).
29. De purgatione canonica, ff. 114b(?)-120a.
30. De purgatione vulgari, ff. 120a-121a.
31. De iniuria et danno d., ff. 121a-124a.
32. De penis, ff. 124-130.
33. De penitentiis et remissionibus, ff. 1830a—152b.
34. De sententia excommunicationis, ff. 153a-170a; most of f. 158,
all of 159, more than one half of 167, paid a portion of 168 are blank.
35. De verborum significatione, ff. 170a-181b; f. 182 is blank.
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36. De regulis juriis (for juris?), ff. 183a-189a. F. 189) bears a
note similar to that on f. 75b under the caption: Adde ad Ab. in col.
in glo. super v°. in οἷ. decernimus. Incip.: In hac opinionum varietate
mihi placet ea opinio.—Ezplic.: Et ibi simile de materia. In ea: F. 190
is blank.
Various changes of hand appear throughout the volume, a few of
which have been indicated at points deserving special notice. The mar-
‘ginal notes are often in a different hand from the text. On the lower
edges the name Jacobus de Rohis may be read; cf. f. la.
40. Rubricae, Libelli, etc.
Paper, ff. 269, cm. 28.2X21.2, numbered 1-268, 269 being blank,
and a half leaf following f. 84 not included. 28 quires, of 10, except
1, 25 (9), 9, 27 (6), 10, 14 (8), 12, 13 (12); single and double columns,
31-35 lines. An earlier double-leaf numbering appears at foot of the
last versos of certain quires, ff. 1740 (81), 184b (88 2), 1940 (96), 2040
(100), 2140 (105), 2246 (109?). Column rulings often on both sides.
Berlin Purchase nos. 27, 28. 1473-89.
Label: wanting.
Contents: Rubrics, Legal Treatises and Forms. Incip.: In glossa
Rubrice imprimo Baldus continuat.—Ezplic.: prae formatis videlicet
porro.
1. Rubrica De Liberis et Posthumis, ff. 1-35a.
2. On modes of legal procedure, ff. 36a—52a.
3. Antonius de Raho de Neapoli, De Testamentis, ff. 53a—78a.
4. Ordo Judiciarius, ff. 80a-83b. With extended marginal com-
mentary.
δ. De Vulgari et Pupilari sub(stitutione), ff. 86a—102b.
6. Recollecte Date per Doctissimum Virum Franciscum Steam de
Neapoli sub anno Domini M473, vit. Ind(ictionis) rengnante rege
Fer(dinando), ff. 104a-1245.
7. Lectura famosissimi utriusque doctoris domini christofori porchi
super primo secundo tertio Insti., ff. 127a-133a. A chart of family
relationships, in the form of a grotesque human figure, occupies f. 134b.
8. De Publicis Judiciis Instituta: (ἢ another ink) Per dominum
Vincencium pico . . de neapolisub anon. 1.4.8.9, ff. 135a-159a.
9. Singularia Data ac Conposita per Utriusque Juris doctorem
dominum Johannem Spata Fo: sub Anno domini 1489. Ff. 165a-2530.
The sections of this work are numbered in the margin, 1-874.
10. A legal treatise in three hands, 15 sections, ff. 254a-256a.
Incip.: Cum veritas de terra sit orta ut ait dominus.—Ezplic.: nullum
effectum sortitur patet exemplum.
11. Various Libelli, ff. 257a-268b, in a variety of hands.
A note beginning quia prope est dominus, heads f. 269a; f. 2690,
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columns of figures. Ff. 78b-79b, 84a, ὃ, 103a, ὃ, 1330, 134a, 1596-1648,
256b are blank.
Yhesus stands at the head of some pages. A note, rather like
a quire signature, at the foot of f. 2530: Sequuntur singularia Ad hoc
ut possit. :
The penciled numbers 54 (f. 1a) 58 (f. 93a) were given the various
parts of the unassembled manuscripts by its former owner. 4 (in ink)
stands at the head of f.175a. There are occasional notes in various
hands.
SepastTianus Neapouitanus, Declarationes de Regno Siciliae
(relating to the Anjou dynasty of Naples).
Paper, ff. 72, cm. 43.529, single columns, 43-48 lines, in 3 quires of
20, 22, and 30 leaves, numbered 1-73 (71 has been torn out). Ff. 660-
73b were left blank, but ff. 67a-68a have been written over by a later
hand. Column rulings on both sides. Two fly-leaves at the beginning,
blank. Berlin Purchase no. 31. Century XV, XVI.
Label: wanting. Cover of unlined parchment, remains of thongs
(4 pairs) at ends and side. “90” at top of back.
Contents: Declarationes supplectiones ac remissiones Domini
Neap: Sebasti: super capitulis Regni utiles ac necessarie.
1. Et primo super capitulis (regis?) Karoli primi, ff. la-16a. Incip.:
De violentiis puniendis. Pridem ibi Aratorii boves etiam.
2. Rubrica: Capitula regia edita et confirmata Neapoli post quedam
alia capitula primo edita per regem carolum 2™ tunc principem et regni
vicarium In planitie sancti martini et subsequenter Neapoli confirmata
similiter super pacifico statu regni composita et dictata per bone memorie
dominum andream de yser(nia) iuris civilis eximium professorem Ac
tune magne regie curie magistrum rationalem, ff. 16b-29a.
8. Capitula Regis Roberti, ff. 29b-54a.
These include among other documents:
a) Consultum Gulielmi de pernuo Siculi, ff. 39a-40a. On f. 40a
he appears as Gulielmus de pernuo doctor Siculus. In this consultum,
Andreas de yser(nia) (1353) is quoted, f. 40a, 1. 8.
b) A genealogical chronicle (without title) chiefly of the Anjou
dynasty, beginning with the fall of the Hohenstaufen, 1263 (1168)—1390,
ff. 40b-44a.
c) A list of counts created by the Kings of Naples, ff. 440, 45a.
d) Decrees of Robertus and his son Carolus, Dux Calabriae (+1332)
ff. 45b-54a.
A second hand begins with f. 39a, 1. 5, and continues through f. 66a.
4. Capitula Pape honorii, ff. 54a-60a. (A bull of Honorius IV,
dated Oct. 1285.)
5. Memoriae as to judicial procedure, ff. 60b-62a.
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6. Tractatus de quibusdam pertinentibus Ad Fescum, ff. 62b-65b.
7. Quot sunt forme frequentis concessionis feudorum, ff. 66a.—
Explic.: naturales si de feud. fue. contro. In the margin, in the same
hand, Ultimo script(?) 1522 per me meren. exempla. At the head of
f. 660, as though marking the end of the manuscript, Cartae 66 scripte.
8. (In a later hand) Legal forms: Forma Mandati ad Informandum,
etc., ff. 67a-68a. The date given in the first of these, 4 Januarii 1575,
suggests the general period of this hand. References to a parallel text
—carte 213-237, 250—run through ff. 1-37, apparently in the hand of
ff. 39-66. The Capitula Regni referred to in the first title (f. la) are
perhaps meant. In the margin of f. 455, Ista capitula regni non sunt
in capitulis impressis in libro meo. There are markings in a late hand
on the cover: Illustrissimo S(ignor?) mio cesarone. The Sebastianus
Neapolitanus to whom this collection is ascribed, f. la, may be the
jurisconsult of the name of the fourteenth century (11362), but is more
probably he of the fifteenth century (flor. 1482).
Psreupo-Seneca, De Quatuor Virtutibus, Ex Epistulis, etc.
Paper, ff. 16, cm. 21.4 15.6, single columns, 25 lines, 3 quires of 4,
except the 3d (8). No rulings. F. 160 blank. Leaves somewhat
patched. Probably century XV.
Label: wanting. The manuscript is without a binding, the leaves
having escaped from some dilapidated codex.
Contents: Seneca, De Quatuor Virtutibus, Ad Galionem De Remed-
lis Infortuniorum, Ex Epistolis Senecae.
1. Incipit tractatus Senece de quatuor Virtutibus, ff. la-7a, Incip.:
Quatuor virtutum species multorum sapientum sententiis diffinite sunt.
Explic.: aut mentem composui devitet insaniam aut defficiente con-
tempnat ignaviam. Explicit tractatus de quatuor virtutibus Annei
Lucii Senece:—
2. Incipit Liber Senece ad Galionem discipulum suum de Remediis
Infortuniorum: ff. 7b-12a. Incip.: Licet cunctorum poetarum car-
mina gremium vestrum semper illustrent.—Explic.: quam domi sit
ista felicitas. Finis. 7
3. Ex epistolis Senece: ff. 12b-16a. Incip.: Ab alio expectes.
alteri quod feceris.—Ezplic.: Avaricia est pestis Irremediabilis.
Augustinus In epistola ad Medrigium presbyterum Fuge feminam
te obsecro et earum conversationem fuge ut mortem. Nam earum
conversatio quid aliud est quam diaboli ianua: pabulum iniquitatis.
scorpionis percusio. muscarum morsio. et diaboli habitatio.
The text lacks the interpolations found in some manuscripts of these
works and seems to be good. The De Quatuor Virtutibus is in a
different hand from the rest of the manuscript; the hand changing to
a rounder and more open style with the turning of f. 7. Large mar-
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ginal initials and some headings are in red. At the top of f. 7a, a finer
hand has written amo and amor each four times. Nota bene appears
occasionally in the margins of the De Quatuor Virtutibus. In De
Remediis, and to a less extent in Ex Epistolis, a later hand has made
corrections and marginal additions, and has freshened up what was
indistinct.
Srervetus, De Trinitatis Erroribus Libri VII.
Paper, ff. 166, cm. 19X16, single columns, 15-28 lines. 21 quires
of 8, except the 21st (6). No inner margins left. Ff. 1b and 1660
blank. Paper of ff. 1-80 fine; of ff. 81-166 coarse. In the margin is
penciled a folio numbering, probably that of a (printed?) copy with
which the manuscript has been compared, running from Fol. 2a on f. 2a
to 119d on f. 1655. Hengstenberg? Probably century XVII-XVIII.
Label: Servetus de Trinitatis Erroribus. Msct. Below in another
hand and ink, 41. Full pigskin binding.
Contents: De Trinitatis Erroribus Libri Septem per Michaelem
Serveto (corr: Ist hand -tum), alias Reves ab Aragonia Hispanum.
Anno M.D. ΧΧΧΙ, ἢ. la. Incip.: A et Q De Trinitatis Erroribus
Liber Primus. In scrutandis divinae Triadis sanctis arcanis, f. 2a.—
Explic.: et dedit nobis mentem ut cognoscamus ipsum, et patrem per
ipsum, cui gloria et imperium in aeternum, Amen, Amen sine fine
semper. Selah. Finis. F. 1650.
A note on f. 166a, in a different but early hand, reads: Erratum.
Ubicunque reperies Jehonah, tu lege Jehovah, per ou, non on.
The date 1531, f. la, is the date of the first publication of this earliest
of Servetus’ works, at Hagenau. The manuscript is perhaps a copy of a
printed text. Manuscript copies are said to be common.
. J. G. Wacutsr, Elucidarius Cabalisticus.
Paper, ff. 104 (pages numbered (1)-208), em. 22.2X17.5, single
columns, 17 lines, 26 quires of 4. The title stands at the top of each
opening. Hengstenberg. 1706.
Label: Joh. G. Wachter, Elucidarius Cabalisticus. Msct. Below,
154.
Contents: Elucidarius Cabalisticus, sive Recondita Hebraeorum
Philosophiae Brevis et succincta Recensio, Epitomatore Joh. Georgii
Wachtero Philos. Prof. Romae Anno MDCCVI (f. 1a).
1. Epistola Dedicatoria ad Reverendissimum Praesulem Ὁ N.
Benjamin Ursinum 4 Baehr, Regiae Majestatis in Borussia Consecra-
torem, et Ejusdem Regni Episcopum Nec non Consistorii Marchici
Praesidem Vicarium (f.2a). The epistola follows, ff. 2b-5b, pp. 4-10.
2. Praefatio ad Lectorem, ff. 6a-17a, pp. 11-33.
3. Responsio ad censuras iniquissimas, quibus hic liber a nonnullis
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per triennium oppressus est, ex Clemente Alexandrino Lib. 1. Strom:
ab initio, ff. 17a, ὃ, pp. 33, 34.
4. Elucidarius Cabalisticus, ff. 17b-104b, pp. 34-208. In five
chapters:
i. De Origine Cabalae.
ii. De Propagatione Cabalae.
iii. De Corpore Doctrinae Cabalisticae.
iv. De Consensu Cabalae et Spinozae.
v. Quid de Cabala Sentiendum.
Incip.: Ebraeorum Philosophi Mysteria sua ab Adamo usque
derivant, f. 18a, p. 35.—Ezplic.: ipse medetur illustri sua de Divinitate
Christi confessione.
Tantum. Exarabam
Berolini Anno 1702. F. 1040, p. 208.
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GREEK
(Gr. 1.) Basttrus Maenus, Sermo de Legendis Libris Gentilium;
Atuanastius, Vita Sancti Antonit.
Paper, ff. 71, cm. 23.8X17.2, rough edges, in 10 quires of 8, except
3d (4) and 10th (3). The last leaf of quire 10 is blank. Three fly-
leaves at the beginning. Single columns, 20-23 lines. Ornaments over
titles. Titles, initials and beginnings of paragraphs in red throughout.
There is an old leaf numbering, άτιθ. Berlin Purchase? Century XV.
Label: [S. Bas]ilii Magni de Vtilitate capienda ex libris Gentilium.
8. Athanasii Vita M. [Antonii].
Contents: On verso of 3d fly-leaf in front: 8S. Basilii Oratio de
utilitate capienda ex libb. gentil. S. Athanasii Vita M. Antonii. Hance
minime nancisci potuit qui grecolatinam editionem operum Athanasii
novissimaliter fecit. Definitiones nonnulle. (Of these “ definitiones”
no trace appears in the book.) Underneath, in a different hand:
Exscripta per Gregorium Florellium cleric. Regul.
1. Incip., f. da: Tod μεγάλου βασιλείου ὁμιλία πρὸς τοὺς νέους ὅπως
ἂν ἔξ ἑλληνικῶν ὠφελοῖντο λόγων: (red) Πολλά με τὰ παρακαλοῦντά ἐστι
ξυμβουλεῦσαι ὑμῖν ὦ παῖδες ἃ βέλτιστα εἶναι κρίνω.--- Explic., f. a: ὃ μὴ
πάθητε νῦν ὑμεῖς τοὺς ὀρθῶς ἔχοντας τῶν λογισμῶν ἀποφεύγοντες: (οἴ.
Migne, 8.G., 31, coll. 563-590).
2. Incip., f. 6a: Bios τοῦ ὁσίου πατρὸς ἡμῶν ᾿Αντωνίου ovyypa-
ges ὑπὸ ᾿Αθανασίου ἀρχιεπισκόπου ᾿Αλεξανδρείας πρὸς τοὺς ἐν τῇ ξένῃ
μοναχούς. ᾿Αγαθὴν ἄμιλλαν ἐνεστήσασθε πρὸς τοὺς ἐν αἰγύπτῳ μοναχούς ---
Explic., £. 70a: ᾧ ἡ δόξα, καὶ τὸ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμὴν.
τέλος. Underneath in fine script: γρηγόριος, i.e., the scribe Gregorius
Florellius, ef. fly-leaf 3b (Migne, 8.G. 26, coll. 835-976).
The parchment used to fasten the binding to the back has on it
in red ink, on one side: Septembr. San{cti] egidii abb[at]i exul.; on the
other: Nativitas sancti domini. The number 1 is penciled within a
circle on the outside of the front cover; cf. no. 53. Watermarks:
ff. 1-20: anchor (? or boat with mast) in circle; ff. 21-60: stag in circle;
ff. 61-68: six-pointed star under anchor; ff. 69-71: six-pointed star
within four-pointed star in circle (as on some leaves of Nicetas on Greg.
Nazianz., no. 53, part of which was written by the same Gregorius).
(Gr. 2.) Evangelia Graeca.
Parchment, ff. 267, em. 2718, single columns, 19 lines. Originally
40 quires, of 8, except the 40th (7), besides a prefatory quire of 11.
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7 quires have been lost from the codex (17-23). Of the 33 remaining,
four lack one or two leaves (4, 15, 16, 32), and 29 are complete (1-3,
5-14, 24-31, 33-40). The quires are numbered on the lower inner corner
of the first recto and the last verso. The hand is a large round cursive.
Much of the writing has been retraced. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen
Testamentes, evv. 1290; Von Soden, ε 586. Special purchase, 1895.
The rulings are in the manner usual in Greek codices. Ca. 1500.
Label: Four Gospels in Greek. c. a.p. 1500.
Contents: The Four Gospels in Greek, with the following lacunae:
Matt. 9:36—10:10 (quire 4, f. 1); 12:15b-29a@ (4, 8); Mark 7:24b-36a
(15, 1); 9:48b—10: 14a (16, 1); 12:1—Luke 9:2 (16, 8, and 17-23);
John 1:1-14a (32, 1); 3:14b-27a (32, 8).
1. Lesson-titles with explanatory paragraphs, the Letter of Eusebius
to Carpianus; the Eusebian Canons, in red, ff. la-8b.
2. Ὑπόθεσις τοῦ κατὰ Ματθαῖον εὐαγγελίου and list (in red) of chapter
titles of Matthew, ff. θα-11α.
3. Matt. 1:1—9:35; 10:11—-12:15a; 12:29b—28:20, ff. 124-976.
4. Ὑπόθεσις τοῦ κατὰ Μάρκον ἁγίου εὐαγγελίου, and list (in red) of
chapter titles of Mark, ff. 98a-99b.
5. Mark 1:1—7:24a; 7:360—9:48a; 10:145—11:38, ff. 100a-1340.
6. Luke 9:3—24:53, ff. 1354-1960.
7. Ὑπόμνημα εἰς τὸν ἅγιον ἀπόστολον ᾿Ιωάννην τὸν θεολόγον and list
(in red) of chapter titles of John, ff. 197a-198b.
8. John 1:146—3:14a; 3:27b—21:25, ff. 199a-2670.
Just before the beginning of Matthew, the following hexameters
appear, f. lla:
Ἱματθαίου τόδε ἔργον - ἀριστοπόνοιο τελώνου
ὃς τόκον ἔφρασε θεῖον ἀπειρογάμοιο γυναικός:
ἣ τέκε ἄσπορον υἱὸν ὃν οὐ χάδεν οὐρανὸς εὐρύς -
χίριστὸ)ν ἀειζώοντα - θ(εὸὴν βροτὸν αὐτὸν ἐόντα. ἢ
Before the beginning of Mark are the following hexameters, not unusual
in gospel cursives, f. 99a. The verses are written as prose; the verse-
divisions are supplied below:
ὅσσα περὶ χριστοῖο θεηγόρος ἔθνεα πέτρος
κηρύσσων ἐδίδασκεν ἀπὸ στομάτων
ἐριτίμων, | ἐνθάδε μάρκος ἄγειρε καὶ ἐν
σελίδεσσιν ἔθηκε | τοὔνεκα καὶ μερό-
πεσσιν εὐάγγελος ἄλλος ἐδείχθη: --- |
ἔργον ἀριπρεπὲς ἐκ μεγάλου πέτρου
μνηθεὶς, | μάρκος ἔτευξε τόδε πν(εύματο)ς
ἐν σοφί:
The last two hexameters are repeated at the top of the following
page, f.99b. There are ornamental II-shaped headings at the beginnings
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of Matthew and Mark, and a few initial capitals. See Frontispiece,
f. 1la, Matt. 1:1-4a.
The codex was purchased by the University in 1895 through Pro-
fessor Ernest D. Burton and Professor Caspar René Gregory, from the
estate of a Greek of Thera, by whom it had been brought to Chicago.
The text is Syrian. Collation and estimate by Edgar J. Goodspeed, in
Journal of Biblical Literature, XXI (1902), pp. 100-107. Cf. no. 50.
(Gr.3.) Grorerus Hamarrouus, Chronicon, cum versione Latina.
Paper, ff. xii+555, cm. 46X34, single columns, 25 lines, 100 quires
of 6, except nos. 1, 4, 5, 29, 81, 91, 93, 95, 96 (4), 15, 16, 50, 51, 77 (5),
47 (7), 3, 100 (2), and 78 (8). In the leaf numbering, 132, 210, and
550 have been repeated. A fly-leaf at the beginning and end. Rulings
on one side, margin rulings on both sides. Ff. ib, iiia-ivb, xb, 1a,
551b-552b are blank. Berlin Purchase no. 8. Rome, 1785.
Label: Georgii Hamartoli sive Ioannis Siculi Chronicon MS G.L.
Papal Arms (Pius VI) above. Below, no. 6, on an oval paper label
like those on nos. 2, 6, 12, 14, 17, 18, 39, 54, 63, 65.
Contents: Honori Pii Sexti Pontificis Max. Optimi Principis
Chronicon Georgii Hamartoli sive Ioannis Siculi ab Orbe condito
usque ad annum DCCCXLII, cum continuatione innominati Autoris
ad annum DCCCLXXXVI. E Codicibus Graecis MSS Vaticanis
descripsit, latinumque fecit Ioannes Elias Baldus Romanus Bibliothecae
Vaticanae Graecus Scriptor. Anno MDCCLXXXV. F. ia.
1. Dedicatory address, f. iia-b: Pio Sexto Pontifici Maximo Ioannes
Elias Baldus Perennem Felicitatem. Jncip.: Honores, gratiae, et
praemia.—Explic.: cunctaque tibi prospera eveniant.
2. Praefatio, Incip.: Duorum Scriptorum Chronographiam.—Exzplic.:
Et de hoc plurimas gratias eisdem semper agemus. ἔῤῥωσο, ff. va-xa.
Baldus holds that the original Chronicon of Georgius Hamartolus has
been supplemented by Ioannes Siculus from a Chronicon of Simeon,
“Magister et Logotheta.” As to manuscripts, Baldus states that he
copies from Cod. Vaticanus 153, putting in the margins readings of
Cod. Palatinus 394, which sometimes differs widely from the exemplar,
e.g., f. 3840, Codex Palat. multum differt hic a Vaticano. To this
preface is appended a list: Scriptores quorum autoritatibus usus est
Georgius Hamartolus in hoc Chronico, ff. xia—xiib.
3. Table of Contents, ff. 1b-32a: Here and throughout the rest of the
manuscript, the Greek occupies the versos, the Latin the opposite rectos.
The Latin titles are usually accompanied by the fol. number. Greek
Incip.:
Tlivaé ἀκριβὴς τῆς γραφῆς τοῦ βιβλίου
πράξεις παριστῶν καὶ χρόνους στεφηφόρων
πράξεις παλαιὰς ἔργα καὶ καταστάσεις.
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συμβάντα καὶ πραχθέντα πᾶς μαθεῖν θέλων
ταύτην βίβλον δίελθε, τοῖς γεγραμμένοις
τὸν νοῦν ἐφιστῶν (πᾶσι suppl. mg.) μή τι που λάθοι.
ὡς ἄν, παριστῶν ταῦτα τοῖς οὐκ εἰδόσιν,
ἔχειν νομίζη πραγμάτων ἐμπειρίαν.
Περὶ ᾿Αδὰμ τοῦ πρωτοπλάστον.
Explic.: Tlept τῶν συγκεκολλημένων Β. ἀῤῥένων, τέρας τί μέγα φαινομένων.
4. Prologue, ff. 32b-36a. Title: Πρόλογος Χρονικῆς Ἱστορίας Tewp-
γίου Movaxod. The margin has a fuller title found ‘In Codice Palatino
Heidelbergensi 394.” Greek Incip.: Πολλοὶ μὲν τῶν ἔξω φιλολόγοι καὶ
Aoyoypdou.—Explic.: τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐντεῦθεν κατὰ τὴν ἐμὴν ποιήσομαι δύναμιν.
5. The preliminary part of the Chronicon, ff. 35b-61a. Title: Χρονι-
κὸν σύντομον ἐκ διαφόρων χρονογράφων τε καὶ ἐξηγητῶν συλλεγὲν καὶ συν-
τεθὲν ὑπὸ Γεωργίου ᾿Αμαρτωλοῦ Μοναχοῦ. Greek Incip.: βίβλος γενέσεως
ἀνθρώπων, ἣ ἡμέρᾳ ἔπλασεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ᾿Αδὰμ κατ᾽ εἰκόνα καὶ ὁμοίωσιν αὐτοῦ.
—Enxzplic.: Οὐ γὰρ ἤδεσαν εἰπεῖν : Ἔν ἀρχῇ ἐποίησεν ὃ Θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ
τὴν γῆν.
6. The Chronicon proper. Ff. 600-55la. Title: ᾿Αρχὴ τοῦ Χρονικοῦ
Βιβλίου Tewpyiov Movaxod. Greek Incip.: a’. ᾿Επανάληψις τῆς dpxato-
Aoyias ἐν ἐπιτόμῳ ἀρχομένης ἀπὸ τοῦ ᾿Αδάμ. ᾿Αδὰμ τοίνυν κατὰ τὸν
σοφώτατον καὶ θεῖον ὑποφήτην Movojv.—Explic.: ὃ βασιλεὺς ἀσμενέστατα
ὑπεδέξατο, καὶ διὰ πάσης ἦγε τιμῆς.
Latin Incip.: 1. Repetitio historiae de rebus antiquis.—Ezplic.
Imperator libentissime eum suscepit, atque omnino in honore habuit.
Laus Deo Uni et Trino.
This subscription follows the Greek text, f. 550b: ᾿Ετελειώθη 9 παροῦσα
Δέλτος ἐν τῇ προεορτῇ τοῦ ἐνδόξου καὶ μεγαλομάρτυρος τοῦ ἁγίου Aavpevtiou
Διακόνου, ἐν ἔτει ἀπὸ τῆς σαρκώσεως τοῦ Κυρίον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ
χιλιοστῷ ἑβδομικοσιοστῷ ὀγδοηκοστῷ πέμπτῳ, διὰ χειρὸς Ἰωάννου Ἡλίου
Βάλδον Ῥωμαίου τῆς Βιβλιοθήκης Βατικάνης ἑλληνικοῦ ΓΠραμματέως.
The last guard has a penciled pricemark in lire. The prevailing
watermarks are a fleur-de-lis in a single or double circle, and vitTort.
(Gr. 4.) Micuart Guycas, Epistolae, cum versione Latina, Vol. 1.
Paper, ff. 406, cm. 43.4 27.9, in 88 quires of 4, except nos. 6 (2);
26, 56, 65-71 and 88 (6); 60, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86 (8); single
columns, 22-24 lines. Three fly-leaves and one leaf bearing title-page
in front, 3 fly-leaves in back. Ruling on recto. A penciled line sepa-
rates the writing from the wide margins. Folio numbering (except on
prefatory ff.) in brown ink, from 2-384. Berlin Purchase no. 6. 1787.
Label: Michaélis Glycae Epistolae Theolog. Selectae G.L. MS.
Title-page: Pio Sexto Pont. Max. Literarum Artiumque Egregiarum
Conservatori Optimo Principi Michaelis Glycae Epistolas Selectas de
Quaestionibus Theologicis editas et ineditas Ioannes Elias Baldus Ro-
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manus ex Codice Graeco MS. Aloysii Lollini Episcopi Bellunensis
descripsit omnes fere in Latinum vertit praefatione ornavit et ob collata
sibi beneficia Ὁ. N. Μ. 9. E.D.D. Anno MDCCLXXXVII. Under-
neath are the arms of Pius VI, the papal keys and tiara over the
Braschi arms (?), carefully done in pen and ink. The same arms
appear stamped in gold upon the fine brown calfskin of the binding, on
the front and back covers, as on nos. 49, 65; ef. no. 47.
Contents: 1. Prefatory material. A. Dedication, Incip., f. ia: Pio
Sexto Pontifici Maximo Ioannes Elias Baldus Perennem Felicitatem.
Tertium hoc meum opus . . (The University owns one of these other
works, Georgius Hamartolus (no. 47), but not the other, Nicephoras
Gregoras.) In its first section the dedicatory address deals especially
with former librarians of the Vatican and their labors, in the second and
last, with the gifts of Pius VI to the library, of which the purchase of
the manuscripts (chiefly Greek) of the monastery 8S. Basilii Magni de
Urbe is especially enlarged upon.—Ezplic., f. iva: Te diu incolumem,
beatumque conservet.
B. Preface, Incip., f. va: Ioannis Eliae Baldi Praefatio ad Glycae
Epistolas. Cum varias ob causas.—Section 1: Dignitas operi; 2: Qui
Glycae epistolas edidere; 3: De Glycae Aetate; 4: Examen sententiarum
de Glyeae aetate, ac nonnullarum earum refutatio; 5: De Codicibus
Epistolarum Glycae in variis Bibliothecis (a very full description of
Cod. Lollinensis 34, Vaticanus 1718, from which Baldus’ copy was
made); 6: De Sententiis Glycae in suis Epistolis.——Explic., f. xvib: ut
illos, qui non tam obvii sunt, reperias. Vale.
C. Incip., f. xviia: Syllabus Scriptorum qui in Epistolis Glycae
citantur. Acacius Caesareae. f. 32.—Ezplic., f. xixa: Vitae Patrum
142. 222. 379.
D. Incip., ἴ. xxa: Elenchus Epistolarum Glycae. 1: Ad Joannem
Sinaitam.—Exzplic., f. xxiib: Ad Thedoram Manuelis Imp. Neptem,
quae vehementer animum despondebat ob caedem quam perpetrare ausa
est in quandam mulierem zelotypiae causa, f. 378.
2. The Letters. Greek Incip., f. 1b: Τραμματικοῦ Μιχαὴλ τοῦ TAuKa
ἜἘπιστολαί. Τῷ τιμιωτάτῳ μοναχῷ στυλίτῃ κυρῷ Ἰωάννῃ τῷ Swatry. Ei
χρὴ συγκαταβαίνειν τοῖς πταίουσιν καὶ μὴ κατὰ λόγον αὐτοῖς ἐπιτιμᾷν τὸν
προσήκοντα. & Καὶ τοῦτο μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων. Latin Incip., f. 2a: Michaélis
Glycae Grammatici Epistolae. Ad Ioannem Sinaitam Monachum et
Stylitam maxime venerandum. Utrum in peccatum lapsis condescen-
dendum, an prout ratio postulat increpandi sint. Hoc etiam inter alia.
Greek Explic., f. 383b: φαίνεται yap ἐντεῦθεν ὡς ἐκόντες ἡμεῖς εἰς θάνατον
ἑαυτοὺς προδιδόαμεν. ᾿Ἐτελειώθη ἡ αὕτη Δέλτος διὰ χειρὸς ἐμοῦ Iw. ἩἫἩλίώ
Βάλδου ῥωμαίου ἐν τῇ προεορτῇ τῶν ἁγιωτάτων Ἀποστόλων Πέτρου καὶ
Παύλου ἡμέρᾳ € ἔτους αψπᾷζ.---Ἰιαἰϊη Explic., f. 384a: Hine enim sponte
nosmetipsos in mortem prodere apparet.
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49.
Michael Glycas is well known as a Byzantine historian of the better
class. His reputed letters (i-xxix) are printed in Migne, Patrologia,
Ser. Graec., Vol. 158, coll. 647-958. The two Glycas manuscripts, nos.
48 and 49, include the bulk of those in Migne, but preserve a much
fuller collection of 93 letters (56 in this volume and 37 in Vol. II).
These letters contain much unpublished material, and many quotations
especially from ancient and mediaeval ecclesiastical literature. Variants
are given in the margin. The recto of the last fly-leaf shows a penciled
pricemark in lire. Watermark: On one-half of the leaf a fleur-de-lis (?)
in a circle; in the other: Pietro Milano Fabriano.
(Gr. 5.) MicuarL Guycas, Epistolae, cum versione Latina,
Vol. IT.
Paper, ff. 216, cm. 43.8 28.2, in 54 quires of 4, except the Ist (2)
and 47th (6). 2 fly-leaves in front and back. Columns, rulings, etc., as
in Vol. I. (no. 48). Folio numbering (except prefatory ff.) from 2-202.
Berlin Purchase no. 7. 1788.
Label: Mich. Glycae Epist. Theol. Relig. G.L. MS.
Title-page, f. ia: Michaelis Glycae Epistolae Reliquae de Quaes-
tionibus Theologicis Omnes praeter unam ineditae Collectae et in
latinum versae A Joanne Elia Baldo Romano Ad Pium Sextum Pont.
Max.—Arms of Pius VI here and on binding as in Vol. I, except that in
this vol. they are above the date: Anno Christi MDCCLXXXVIII.
Contents: 1. Prefatory material. A. Dedication, Incip., f. iia:
Beatissime Pater. Etsi in superiori volumine Sanctissime Pater Glycas
iste—Explic., f. ἰδ: precans quotidie Deum Optimum Maximum ut
Sanctitatem Tuam diu incolumem, felicem, atque beatam servet.
B. Incip., f. iva: Praefatio Ioannis Eliae Baldi In Reliquas Michaelis
Glycae Epistolas. Utilitas quam literis—Ezplic., f. ixa: diximus etiam
de Investituris Bonifacii VIII. corrige IX. Vale.
C. Incip., f. ixb: Index Scriptorum qui 4 Glyca in praesenti volumine
citantur. Actus Apostolorum. 140. 192. 199.—Explic., f. xb: Vita 5.
Simeonis Stylitae. 47.
D. Incip., f. xia: Argumenta Epistolarum Glycae In hoc volumine.
1. Quid sentiendum et dicendum de horabili Christi cruce, f. 2.
Explic., f. xiib: 37. Ad Nectarium. An dicentibus Sacrarum Scriptu-
rarum lectionem nihil prodesse sit attendendum. f. 190. The last two
folia of the prefatory quires are blank.
2. The Letters of Glycas. Greek Incip., f. 1b: Ῥραμματικοῦ Μιχαὴλ
τοῦ Τλυκᾶ Εἰπιστολαὶ λοιπαί, Τί δὲ χρὴ καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ τιμίῳ σταυρῷ τοῦ
Χριστοῦ φρονεῖν τε καὶ λέγειν. ἃ. ἄλλ. Ko. Ei δὲ καὶ τὸν σταυρὸν.---
Latin Incip., f. 2α: Michaelis Glycae Grammatici Epistolae Reliquae.
Quid sentiendum et dicendum de honorabili Christi Cruce. 1. al. 26.
Etiamsi Crux.—Greek Explic., f. 201b: 6 ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας ᾿Αμὴν.
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50.
TEAOS.—Latin Ezplic., ἴ. 202a: cui gloria in secula. Amen. FINIS.
The pricemark in lire, and watermarks, as in Vol. I. This volume con-
tains 37 letters of Glycas. On Glycas and Migne’s edition of a part of
his letters, see no. 48.
(Gr. 6.) Lectionarium Epistolarum.
Parchment, ff. 6, cm. 26.317, 1 quire, single columns, 39-43 lines.
Probably the last quire of a book, for the last lesson ends with 1. 3 of
f. 6b. Professor Gregory’s leaf numbering (1-267) of the accompanying
Gospels manuscript (no. 46) continues through these leaves (268-273).
Marginal capitals and lectionary indications are in red. Special
purchase, 1895. Century XIII.
Label: the leaves were bound up, in 1897, as an appendix, with the
Haskell Gospels (no. 46), the book being labeled: Four Gospels in
Greek c. a.p. 1500.
Contents: Church lessons from the epistles, the majority for Lent.
Incip.: πίστει ραὰβ ἡ πόρνη: (Heb. 11:31) ἢ. la.—Ezplic.: ἀφοροοῦντες
εἰς τὸν τῆς πίστεως ἀρχιγὸν καὶ τελειώτην Ἰ(ησοῦ)ν (Heb. 12:2) f. 6b.
The leaves preserve 33 (possibly 34) lessons, all but the first being
complete. They are usually introduced by ᾿Αδελφοί. The texts are:
1. Heb. 11:31 18. Rom. 6:3-11
2. Heb. 3:12-16 19. I Tim. 2:1-7
3. Heb. 1:10—2:1 20. Heb. 7:7-17
4. Heb. 10:32-38a 21. Gal. 4:4-7
5. Heb. 4:14—5:6 22. I Cor. 9:19—10:4 (a division at
6. Heb. 6:9-12 9:27)
7. Heb. 6:13-20 | 23. Tit. 2:11-14; 3:4-7
8. Heb. 9:24-28 24, II Tim. 2:11-19
9. Heb. 9:11-14 25. II Tim. 3:10-15
10. Heb. 12:28—13:8 26. II Tim. 3:1-9
11. Phil. 4:4-9 27. I Cor. 6:12-20
12. I Cor. 11:23-30 28. I Cor. 10:23-28
13. Rom. 5:6-11 29. I Cor. 8:8—9:2
14, I Cor. 1:10-18 30. Rom. 14:19-23; 16:25-27
15. I Cor. 15:1-11 31. Rom. 13:11b—14:4
16. Gal. 6:11-13, 14-18 32. Heb. 9:1-7
17. I Cor. 1:18—2:2 33. Heb. 11:33—12:2a
The material is for the most part that usually found on the last
leaves of lectionaries; cf. Gregory, Textkritik, Vol. I, pp. 360-364.
After the lessons have been carried through the great Sabbath, how-
ever, with no. 18 (Rom. 6:3-11), the remainder is a rather miscellaneous
gathering of texts, some according to the Menologion for days of the
month, others for various days of the movable church year. No. 26
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51.
(II Tim. 3:1-9) lacks a caption in the manuscript and is not found in
the material printed by Gregory, op. cit., pp. 343-386. A modern
hand has penciled in the margins Syriac notes, apparently indicative of
the days for which the lessons are intended. Below the text, on f. 6b
a more recent hand has written
avée το στομα μου Kat πληροθη
σεται πνευματος και λογον ερευξο
μαι τη βασιλει - -
mais παντελὴς εκ χωρίου
κρα( ἢ)
Below, in pencil, φύλλα [eval] διακόσα εβδομήτα διό 272 (that is, φύλλα
διακόσια ἑβδομήκοντα δύο 272). The number of leaves in the present
codex, including the gospels, 273, is probably meant. At the head of
f. 2b, an early hand has written ὧδε ησὴν of ἀπώστωλί(οι) τὸν ὡρὸν τη
ay(ia) Kat μεγά(λῃ) παρ(ασ)κευοί: (ΞΞ- ὧδε εἰσὶν of ἀπόστολοι τῶν ὡρῶν τῇ
ἁγίᾳ καὶ μεγάλῃ παρασκευῇ). The manuscript was purchased for the
University, with the Haskell Gospels (no. 46), by Professor E. D. Burton
and Professor C. R. Gregory, September 12, 1895, from Constantine
Mitchell, executor of Pericles Morades, who had brought it to Chicago
from some part of Greece, probably the island of Thera.
(Gr. 7.) NicrpHoras GreGoras, Historia Byzantina. Lib. 24,
6. 5—Lib. 37 (38).
Paper, ff. 477 and 2 fly-leaves, cm. 27.9X19.4 to 28.5X20.7,
single columns, 20 to 29 lines. The left half of the page is left as a
margin for notes and corrections. 50 quires of irregular size, nos. 7,
17-26, 30-32, 38-41, 46-49, of 12; nos. 3, 14-16, 33, 35-37, 44 and 45,
of 10; nos. 1, 8, 11-13, of 8; nos. 2, 9, 50, of 4; nos. 4 and 6, of 3;
nos. 5 and 34, of 2; nos. 27 and 28, of 6; nos. 42 and 43, of 11; no. 10,
of 5. No rulings; a fold divides each page vertically. Berlin Purchase
no. 4. Ca. 1700.
Label: Nicephori Gregorae Historiae Byzant. Tomus III Graece.
—On the back a rectangular paper label, like those on nos. 1, 5, 11, 52, 65.
Contents: Nicephorus Gregoras, Byzantine History, Lib. 24, c. 5 to
the end of Lib. 37 (38 in the numbering of the manuscript). Incip.,
f. la: Νικηφόρου τοῦ Τρηγορᾶ κεφάλαιον ε΄. τοῦ βιβλίου κδ΄. τῆς Ῥωμαϊκῆς
Ἱστορίας. Ἤδη δὲ τοῦ φθινοπώρου λήγοντος καὶ τῆς ἑορτῆς ἐπιστάσης.
Explic.,£. 475: λάθωμεν ἀπολωλεκότες τὰ ἀναγκαιότατα τῆς δογματικῆς ὑπο-
θέσεως. The manuscript exhibits a number of other peculiarities and
irregularities indicative of a curious origin and history. A leaf num-
bering, counting usually only the leaves written upon and uncanceled,
runs from 1 (f. 1, quire 1) to 230 (the last leaf of quire 27). 2 blank
leaves at the end of quire 19, and 1 each at the end of quires 2 and 23
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are left uncounted, as is the case also with the first 5 leaves of quire 20,
which are canceled. On the recto of the first leaf of quire 28 begins a
page numbering (α΄, 2-12, ιγ'-μ΄, 41-132) running to the last verso of
quire 33. There follows: leaf numbering (133-162), f. 1, quire 34 to
ἢ. 9, quire 37, 2 blank leaves, 1 each at the end of quires 36 and 37
being again left unnumbered; page numbering (212-244), f. la, quire
38—f. δα, quire 39; page numbering (235-341), f. 5b, quire 39—f. 118,
quire 43; leaf numbering (142-211), f. 1, quire 44—f. 2, quire 50, the
last two leaves, quire 50, blank, unnumbered. The book number-
ing, too, is irregular. The historical books, 24—29 are correctly
numbered, no. 25 bearing the legend: Tod αὐτοῦ Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἱστορίας
Adyos ιδ. ἤγουν κε. τῆς ὅλης αὐτοῦ Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἱστορίας. Of the 6 dog-
matical books following, the first is left without any number; over no.
2, a portion of the superscription, reading, ῥωμαικῆς μὲν ἱστορίας λα΄, has
been canceled; 3-5 show no peculiarity; no. 6 is numbered 36 of the
History, whereas by actual count it is 35. This is followed by two
historical books, numbered 37 and 38 respectively.
The manuscript was probably copied from several (at least 3) diff-
erent manuscripts, and collated with one or two others. The margin
of f. la contains the note: Ex MS. Codice Vaticano num. 1095, pag.
95, and an occasional marginal note (e.g., ff. 60a, 616, 73b, 78b) gives
the pagination of that manuscript from 111-117. In the canceled por-
tion of quire 20 begins a new marginal pagination in the hand of the
scribe who wrote that portion, which runs, following the hand of this
scribe, from 1-33 in quires 20-27 and from 63-70 in quires 35-37, giving
presumably the folio numbering of the original from which this portion
was copied. In quire 38 a third marginal notation sets in, beginning,
on page numbered 217, with 113 and running through quire 43 to 144
on page 341. Aside from this, a hand differing from that of the scribe
or scribes has supplied quires 24-33 with a marginal notation running
from 156 to 205. These are the folia of Vat. 1095, and their insertion
shows that this portion of our manuscript was collated with that codex.
At least 6 different hands are found in the body of the manuscript, the
first in quires 1-7 through f. 40a; quires 11-19, f. 59-146a; quires
44-50, f. 142-211; the second in quire 7, f. 40b-410; quires 20-27, from the
5 canceled folia left unnumbered at the beginning of quire 20—f. 230a;
quires 35-37, f. 135-162a; the third in quires 8-10, ff. 42 through 576;
the fourth in quire 10, f. 58; the fifth in quires 28-34, pp. a’, 2-12, ἐιγ΄-μ΄,
41-132, f. 133, 134; the sixth in quires 38-43, pp. 212-341. Several
other hands have been at work upon the manuscript, supplying, in
marginal notes running intermittently throughout the manuscript, con-
jectural emendations, the location of quotations,! the proper place for
10f especial interest is a note on f. 1020, quire 16, where in reference to a
quotation from Athanasius the scribe copied what was evidently a marginal
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section-indentions, either as the reader found them in another manu-
script with which he was collating, or, more probably, as he thought
they ought to be, etc. The whole manuscript shows signs of hurried
preparation. The work of the various scribes occasionally overlaps at
the end and beginning of quires, and one of the duplicate copies is then
canceled (quire 8, ff. 42a-43b; quire 10, f. 58; the first five ff. of quire
20). The edges of some of the quires are roughly trimmed, some are
left altogether untrimmed. The binding, pigskin over pasteboard, is
loosely put on. The place of clasps is taken by cords of hemp or flax.
The watermarks, especially those of the fly-leaves, which bear the
name Fabriano, refer the paper of the manuscript to Italy as its
place of origin. There is a penciled pricemark in lire on the inside of
the rear cover.
The manuscript was probably prepared for use in Boivinus’ edition
of Nicephorus Gregoras’ Byzantine History. Boivinus was the first to
publish (Paris, 1702) Lib. 12—Lib. 24, 6. ii, 4, of Gregoras’ History. This
was Vol. II of his work. No one before his time or unacquainted with
his work would have entitled Lib. 24, ο. ii, 5—Lib. 37 (38) of the history
Tomus III, as does our manuscript, and that is precisely the point at
which Boivinus left his work. Having carried the publication of the
History in Tom. II through Lib. 24, ο. ii, 4, he promised to complete
his edition by a third volume, the contents of which were to be “‘libri
quatuordecim, historici quidem octo, dogmatici vero sex,’ and a fourth
volume, which was to contain Opuscula. These last two volumes were
never published. But Boivinus’ preface shows that he had collected
considerable material for the third volume at least. For this he had
copies of manuscripts from the Vatican prepared under the supervision
of I. Vivantius at the expense of the abbot Camillus Teller covering
apparently Lib. 25 and 26; a Paris manuscript containing apparently
Lib. 28 to 32 or 33, and for the rest again copies of Roman manuscripts
given him by Fr. Rostgaard. There can scarcely be any doubt that the
material thus secured from Rome was based upon Vat. 1095. There
is no record of any other manuscript of Niceph. Gregoras in Rome
and certainly not of any which would correspond, like it, in contents
(Lib. 18-38 [37]), in making Vol. II of the history begin with Lib. 12,
and in counting 38 books, with the only Vatican manuscript of which
Boivinus furnishes any adequate description, when he says (Migne, loc.
cit., col. 11f.): Joannes Mabillonius . . . . communicavit mecum in-
dicem accuratum librorum XXI, in uno codice Vaticano exstantium;
quorum primus esset δευτέρου βιβλίου λόγος ζ΄, id est, Secundae Partis
liber septimus, seu totius historiae decimus octavus; ultimus vero
note in his source, Cod. Vat. 1095 (cf. Corp. Ser. Hist. Byz., Nic. Greg., Vol.
III, p. 125, n. 16): “Ex τῆς ἐγκύκλου ἐπιστολῆς, and a different hand added: adde
In] πρὸς ἐπισκόπους Αἰγύπτου kal Λιβύης. pag. 291, edit. Paris. 1698.
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52.
inscriberetur, Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἱστορίας Ay’... . . An examination of Cod.
Vaticanus 1095, made by Mr. Sprengling at Rome in 1908, shows that
the Nicephorus part of it begins with Lib. 18, reaching Lib. 24, c. ii, 5
on f. 95a; it makes Vol. II of the whole history begin with Lib. 12, as
the heading to Lib. 25, cited above, shows; and it counted, by the error
above shown, 38 books, instead of 37. Just what stage Boivinus’ work
upon this material reached neither he nor any one else has told. After
him, however, work upon it seems to have lain dormant for over a
century. His work was reprinted in the Corp. Byzant., Venice, 1729
(cf. Migne, Patrol., 8.G. 148, col. 100, note [d]), but there is no record
of any attempt to add to it at that time. Schopen, in the Bonn Corpus
Script. Hist. Byz., 1839, did little more than reprint Boivinus’ edition
in two volumes. He tells, however, of a certain Hasius, who seems to
have promised to take up the work where Boivinus left it. But his
efforts led to nothing. It was not until 1855 that Immanuel Bekker
issued as Vol. III of Niceph. Gregoras’ works in the Bonn Corpus, that
portion of the history contained in our manuscript. But it is practically
certain he did not make use of our manuscript. True, the remainder
of 24, and the whole of Lib. 25 and 26, and indeed (though he does not
say so) Lib. 27 in his edition are based upon a copy of Cod. Vaticanus
1095, which is the source of a large portion of our manuscript. But the
copy he used was expressly made for him (see his preface) at the cost of
the Berlin Academy, by a certain Henricus Brunnus, and the rest of his
work is based upon Codd. Paris. Reg. 1276 and 3075 (the latter a
portion, at least, of Rostgaard’s work), a copy of which he secured
through Wladimir Brunetus. The text which he secured by these
means does not correspond to that offered by the present manuscript.
Indeed, had he had this manuscript, with its marginal notes, conjectural
emendations, etc., his edition could not have failed to be considerably
better. Since that time his work has been once reprinted, Migne,
Patrol., 8.G. 148, 149.
The most reasonable hypothesis, then, in regard to this manuscript,
is that it was prepared either by or for Boivinus, as “copy” for his
Vol. III. He may himself have had it (some of the work in the notes
would seem to indicate as much), and sent it to Italy for correction (as
he did with part of the material for the second volume), whence it was
never returned to him. Or the whole of the work may have been done
in Italy and may never have reached him.
(Gr. 8.) Niceras SERRoNrvS, Commentaria in Orationes Gregorit
Nazianzem.
Paper, black edges, ff. 399 and 5 fly-leaves (two in front and three
in back), em. 32.7X22.4, single columns of 29 lines, 51 quires of 8,
except nos. 1, 40, 45 (6); 48 (7); 50 (10); and 51 (4). Norulings. Some
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53.
ornamentation and initials in red or red and black. Calvary Purchase
no. 3. Century XIV-XV.
Label: S. Gregor. Nanz. Opera.—Above, written directly on the
pigskin binding, the number 29, and underneath this, 162. Below, on
a rectangular paper label: XXXII. Cf. nos. 1, 5, 11, 51, 65.
Contents: 1. Ὑποθέσεις, brief introductory paragraphs on time, place,
occasion, content, etc., of the various orations treated, ff. la-5b. Incip.,
f. la: ὑπόθεσις τοῦ λόγου τοῦ εἰς THY TOU χριστοῦ ἀνάστασιν: ἄκων εἰς ἱερω-
σύνην ὃ μέγας οὗτος πατὴρ axGels—Explic., £.5b: καὶ οὐδὲ τῆς συνήθους
θεολογίας ἀφίσταται:---. F.6is blank. The orations numbered 5 and 6
in the order of the ὑποθέσεις are put in reverse order in the ἐξηγήσεις.
2. ᾿Ἐξηγήσεις or commentaries by Nicetas of Serrae (sometimes called
“of Heraclea’”’) on 16 orations of Gregory of Nazianzus, ff. 7a-399b.
Incip., £.7a: Tod ἐν ἁγίοις πατρὸς ἡμῶν Πρηγορίου ἀρχιεπισκόπου ναζιανζοῦ
τοῦ θεολόγου λόγος εἰς τὴν ἁγίαν τοῦ χριστοῦ ἀνάστασιν: ᾿Εξήγησις τοῦ ἐν
ἁγίοις πατρὸς ἥμων νικήτα σερῶν:---[Ακων χειροτονηθεὶς ἱερεὺς 6 θεῖος
Τρηγόριος: The commentary is upon the oration given under no. I,
Vetus Ordo XLI in Greg. Naz. works, Ed. Clemencet, Paris, 1778.
The other orations commented upon are then treated as follows: Ed.
Clem. XLV, Vetus Ordo XLII, beginning on f. 166; Ed. Clem. XLIV,
Vetus Ordo XLIII, f. 846; Ed. Clem. XLI, Vetus Ordo XLIV, f. 1016;
Ed. Clem. XV, Vetus Ordo XXII, f. 132a; Ed. Clem. XXIV, Vetus
Ordo XVIII, f. 1496; Ed. Clem. XIX, Vetus Ordo IX, f. 163a; Ed.
Clem. XXXVIII, Vetus Ordo XXXVIII, f. 178a; Ed. Clem. XLIII,
Vetus Ordo XX, f. 200a; Ed. Clem. XXXIX, Vetus Ordo XXXIX,
f. 247a; Ed. Clem. XL, Vetus Ordo XL, f. 267a; Ed. Clem. XI, Vetus
Ordo VI, f. 306a; Ed. Clem. XXI, Vetus Ordo XXI, ἢ. 312a; Ed. Clem.
XLII, Vetus Ordo XXXII, f. 336a; Ed. Clem. XIV, Vetus Ordo XVI,
f. 3600; Ed. Clem. XVI, Vetus Ordo XV, f. 383a.—Erzplic., £. 399b:
τῷ θεῷ, ᾧ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰῶνων, ἀμήν. Of these ἐξηγήσεις
there have been published: in Greek, nos. 1 and 12 of this manuscript,
by Matthaei (Moscow, 1780; reprinted in Migne, 5.6. 36); in Latin,
by Billius, nos. 1-4, 8, 10-12 of our manuscript (cf. Migne, 5.6. 36 and
127).—On other manuscripts of the ἐξηγήσεις see the prefaces in Migne,
in Greg. Naz. Opp. Omn., Ed. Clem., and Omont, Facsim . . des. .
manuscrits grecs . . du IX® au XIV° siécle, notice des Planches, p. 11;
Planche 52, and Appendice p. 20, no. 1314.
The condition of the manuscript shows that it was at one time with-
out cover or binding. A penciled pricemark in lire on the last fly-leaf.
(Gr. 9.) Nicztas SzrRonius, Nonnus, Commentaria in Orationes
Gregorit Nazianzent.
Paper, ff. 43 and a fly-leaf in front and back, cm. 27 .4X21.2—
31X 21.8, single columns, 27-44 lines, no ruling. The quires are very
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irregular; nos. 1, 2 and 6 of 4; 3 (11); 4 (6); 5 and 8 (8); 7 (8). A few
initials in red, ff. 10, etc. Berlin Purchase no. 2. Century XV.
Label: Gregorii Nazianzeni Sermo de Resurrectione Christi: et
Fragmenta de Historia SS. Apostolorum. Below are the remains of a
paper label.—On the front cover: (2), corresponding to (1) on the cover
of no. 45.
Title: On recto of front fly-leaf: D. Gregorii Nazianzeni Sermo in
Resurrectione Cristi Greg: Florellius Item In istoriam 8S. Apostolorum
Fragmenta.—F lorellius is the scribe of no. 45.
Contents: 1. Fragments of the Commentaries of Nicetas of Serrae
on the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus, ff. la-19a. A. On the
Oration, in Ed. Clemencet of Gregory’s works, no. I, Vetus Ordo XLI;
Incip.,f.1a: Tot ἐν ἁγίοις πατρὸς ἡμῶν Tpyyopiov ἀρχιεπισκόπου ναζιανξοῦ
τοῦ θεολόγου λόγος εἰς τὴν ἁγίαν τοῦ χριστοῦ ἀνάστασιν:---- Ἐξήγησις τοῦ
ἐν ἁγίοις πατρὸς ἡμῶν νικῆτα σερῶν:--Ακων χειροτονηθεὶς ἱερεὺς ὁ θεῖος
Tpeyéptos.—Ezplic., £.8b: ἐπιδιορθούμενος ὃ εἴπεν, οὐ μεγαλοψυχίαν, ἀλλὰ
μᾶλλον φιλο-.---Α slavish copy of an exemplar containing all the extant
ἐξηγήσεις of Nicetas, f. 7a-f. 14a, 1. 14 (cf. Migne, 8.G. 36, coll. 944—-
961).—F. 9 is left blank. There was evidently a gap here, in the exemplar.
B. On the Homily, Ed. Clem. XXI, Vetus Ordo XXI, λόγον εἰς
τὸν μέγαν ἀθανάσιον. Incip.,f. 10a: μόνον ἔχει διαδοχῆς καὶ ἀληθείας.---
Explic., £..19b: πολλάκις yap aitove.—Copied from f. 3174, 1. 1, to the
end of f. 327a of the exemplar.
2. Commentaries, or scholia, of the Abbot Nonus or Nonnus on
various Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus, ff. 20a—43a.
A. Incip.,f.20a: Tod ἀββᾶ νόνου. ΣΣυναγωγὴ καὶ ἐξήγησις, ὧν ἐμνήσθη
Ἱστοριῶν ὃ ἐν ἁγίοις Τρηγόριος ἐν τῷ εἰς τὰ φῶτα λόγῳ, οὗ ἡ ἀρχὴ, πάλιν
ἰ(ησοῦ)ς ὁ ἐμὸς -:: πρώτη ἐστὶ ἱστορία ἣ τῶν γονέων τοῦ Aids: οὐ Aids
ταῦτα γοναὶ, καὶ κλοπαὶ: Α τὸν δία οἱ δῆθεν θεολόγοι τῶν ἑλλήνων ἐκ
κρόνου λέγουσι γεννηθῆναι.--- Ε΄ ρίϊο., f.23b: ἐξ ἀλόγου τιμῆς ἀτιμίας ἑαυτοῖς
ποριζόμενοι :: (Migne, 5.(. 36, coll. 1065-1072). ;
B. Incip., £. 28: Swaywyy, καὶ ἐξήγησις ὧν ἐμνήσθη ἱστοριῶν ὃ ἐν
ἁγίοις Γριγόριος ἐν τῷ εἰς βασίλειον τὸν μέγαν ἐπιταφίῳ. πρῶτη ἐστὶ
“ ἃ ἃ ᾿ {δ \ {δι Son \ -ς. α΄ 3 ΄
ἱστορία ἡ πέρι τῶν πελοπί WV, καὶ KEKPOTLOWV, καὶ τῶν συν αὐτοῖς ονοματῶὼν
΄ «
ἃ Οἱ τῶν ἔξω ῥήτορές τε καὶ cofioral—Explic., f. 274: καὶ θέασαι
τὴν καινὴν πόλιν, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς": -(ΜΊρτι, loc. cit., coll. 1057-1066). Another
hand has added to this portion scholia, in Greek and Latin, consisting
chiefly in quotations of and references to non-Christian writers. F. 275
is blank.
C. Incip., ἴ. 28a: Suvaywyy καὶ ἐξήγησις ὧν ἐμνήσθη ἱστοριῶν ὃ ἐν
ἁγίοις γρηγόριος ἐν τῷ ἀ κατὰ ἰουλιανὸν στηλιτευτικῷ λόγῳ Ὁ λόγος ὃ
στηλιτευτικὸς ψόγος ἐστὲ τῶν τῷ ἰουλιανῷ πεπραγμένων:---- Εἰ ρίϊο., f. 38a:
χθιζὸς ἔβη κατὰ δαῖτα, θεοὶ δ᾽ ἅμα πάντες ἕποντο :- (Migne, loc. cit., coll.
985-1036).
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ἢ. Incip., £. 38a: ’Opios συναγωγὴ; καὶ ἐξήγησις ὧν ἐμνήσθη ἱστοριῶν
ὃ ἐν ἁγίοις Τρηγόριος καὶ ἐν τῷ β κατὰ ἰουλιανοῦ στηλιτευτικῷ λόγῳ:- |
πρώτη δὲ ἱστορία ἐστὶ ἡ περὶ τοῦ ᾿Αριάδνης στεφάνου καὶ βερονίκης
πλοκάμου, καὶ περὶ τοῦ κύκνου, καὶ τοῦ ταύρου, καὶ τοῦ λέοντος, καὶ τοῦ
ὀφιούχου, εἰσὶ δὲ αὗται :- Ἢ ᾿Αριάδνη θυγάτηρ ὑπῆρχεν Μήνωος τοῦ κρητῶν
Bactiéus.—Explic., ἴ. 48a; καὶ ἔστι φησὶν ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ μετὰ σκορπίου :-
λογολεσχίαι, καὶ ληρήματα ἔμπρακτα, ἀπατηλαὶ δαιμόνων. τέλος. (Migne,
loc. cit., coll. 1035-1058). The Nonnus material is in a different hand,
much freer and somewhat earlier than the Nicetas.—A pricemark in
lire is on the rear guard.
(Gr. 10.) Procuus, Elementa Theologica.
Paper, ff. 52, cm. 32.5X22.9. Single columns, 28 (27) lines, 7 quires,
of 8 leaves, except 7th (4). Ff. 1 and 52 were originally left blank.
Berlin Purchase no. 1. 1582.
Label: Procli Elementa Theologica. Below, part of such a paper
label as appears on nos. 2, 6, 12, 14, 17, 18, 39, 47, 63, 65. The same
title appears on f. la (the fly-leaf), and, in a different hand and with
the addition of graec., on f. 16. ;
Contents: Πρόκλου Διαδόχου, πλατωνικοῦ φιλοσόφου: στοιχείωσις
θεολογικὴ, κεφάλαια διακόσια ἕνδεκα, f. 2a.—Incip.: a Πᾶν πλῆθος μετέχει
πῃ τοῦ évds.—Explic.: κἀκεῖνα τέλεια ποιεῖν, πᾶσα ἄρα ψυχὴ, κάτεισιν:
Of 211 chapters, two (96, 202) were omitted by the first hand and later
supplied, perhaps by the same hand, in the margin. Chs. 25 and 26
are wrongly numbered 24 and 25. The lacuna usual in Proclus manu-
scripts is indicated near the top of f. 5la, in ch. 209. There are
occasional marginal notes in Greek. The chapter numbers usually
stand in the outer margin. In text the manuscript shows some afhnity
with Codex A (Argentinus) of Friedrich Kreuzer’s edition (Frankfurt,
1822).
At the end of the text, f. 516, stand the following colophons:
Τέλος, καὶ τῷ θεῷ δόξα :
Χριστὲ δίδου πονέοντι τεὴν πολύολβον ἀρωγήν :
γόνυ συζεύξας, ὑποκλίνας δὲ κάραν,
χεῖρας ἐκτείνας, εἰς τὰς θείας τετράδας,
τέρμα τόδε εἴληφεν ἣ φιλοσόφων βίβλος.
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τὸν δακτύλοις γράψαντα, τὸν κεκτημένον,
τὸν ἀναγινώσκοντα ἐκ θείου φόβου.
nr x. Ν “- EA \ id
σῶσον καὶ τοὺς τρεῖς ὦ τριὰς πανολβία.
Ἔν Παρθενόπῃ τῇ a μαρτίου μηνὸς
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X(risti) corp(ore) primo mensis martii die vero iove 1582
anno a nativitate d(omin)i.
A.B. C. Ὁ. E. F. G.
omnes sunt quaterniones praeter G duernio
Creuzer in his edition (Proclus, In Platonis Alcibiadem, Com-
mentarii, vol. 3, pp. xii, xiii), mentions many manscripts of the Elementa
(or Institutio) Theologica, but not this one.
(Gr. 11.) Procopius, Epitome Eclogarum in Heptateuchum et
Canticum Canticorum.
Paper, ff. 462, pp. 924, em. 41.528, 2 columns, 43-46 lines, in 116
quires of 4, except the 39th (3), 58th (2), and 98th (5). There are also
3 prefatory quires, of 2, 5, and 4 leaves, and a concluding quire of 5
leaves, left blank. Ff. ia-viia, ixa-xib, and pp. 923, 924 are blank.
After the prefatory quires, the pages are numbered, 1-722. Columns
ruled in ink on both sides. After the preface the Greek occupies the
inner column, the Latin translation the outer, until it ceases at the end
of Judges, p. 782. Thereafter the outer column is left blank. University
of Chicago accession 18981. Hengstenberg? 1696-97.
Label: Procopius In Heptateuch: et Canticum.—Below, on a paper
label, 83. The binding is pigskin, and is not the original one, since the
edges have been trimmed since the marginal notes were written.
Contents: Procopius, Epitome Eclogarum in Heptateuchum et
Canticum.
1. Xopixiov σοφιστοῦ Ἐπιτάφιος ἐπὶ Προκοπίωι σοφιστῇ Γάζης, f. viiia.
Incip.: ‘O λόγος (μΕ.: io. ἄρχεται) εὔχεται μὲν εἰς ἀνάγκην τοιαύτης
ἐλθὼν ὑποθέσεως. τιμᾷ δὲ τὴν ὁσίαν τοῦ τεθνεῶτος ἐμοὶ παιδευτοῦ " (mg.:
supple μνήμην) ταύτην αὐτῷ κατὰ δύναμιν ἀποδιδὼ ἀμοιβήν.
Ἴσως μὲν ἄλογόν τι δόξω ποιεῖν.---Βαρίϊο.: ὅτι τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τὴν
ἀττικὴν αὐτοῦ μὲν ἀπόντος σύγχυσις εἶχε καὶ ῥαθυμία καὶ ταραχὴ καὶ κόσμος
ἦν οὐδεὶς τῶν ποιουμένων, f. viiib.
2. ᾿Αρχὴ σὺν θεῷ τῆς εἰς τὴν Teveow τῶν ἐκλογῶν ἐπιτομῆς Προκοπίου
Χριστιανοῦ σοφιστοῦ.---[ποῖρ.: Ἤδη μὲν καὶ πρότερον θεοῦ τὸ δύνασθαι
χορηγήσαντος. Latin: Bono cum Deo Initium Epitomes Eclogarum
in Genesim Procopii Sophistae Christiani. Iam antea quidem. p. 1.—
Explic.: Latin: qui scilicet hac ratione Israelitarum peccata volebat
puniri. p.782,col.1. Greek: ταῖς τῶν διωκόντων ὄψεσιν ἄληπτοι γίνονται,
τῶν ἀρωμάτων δηλούντων τὸ εὐῶδες τῶν οὐρανίων καὶ καθαρόν. p. 922.
Choricius the ‘‘Sophist’’ was a pupil οἱ Procopius of Gaza (a.p. 518-
565). A note at the foot of col. 2, p. 782, gives the date of the manu-
script: Coeptum hoc opus fuit d. xi Martii MDCXCVI. Ad finem
feliciter perductum d. xvi. Iunii MDCXCVII.—The Latin translation
does not go beyond this point; that is, it covers Genesis-Judges, but
not the Song of Songs. A Greek “‘scholium ad p. 659” (14 lines) is
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inclosed on a loose leaf. On fly-leaf viib, in the upper right hand
corner, a later hand has written: cf. de hoc manuscripto (ex bibl. God.
Olearii) Rosenmiilleri histor. interpretationis. part. IV. pagg. 222, 234
sqq., 245 sqq.-262. The watermark is a leaping unicorn.
(Gr. 12.) Ionannes TzETzEs, Epistolae.
Paper, ff. 137, cm. 20.116, in 12 quires of 12, except the 12th (5).
2 fly-leaves in front and back. Single columns, 20-22 lines, no rulings.
There is a page numbering: 3, 24, 25, 48, 49, 72, 73, 96, 97, 120, 121,
144, 145, 168, 169, 190, 191, 192, 193, 198, 216, 217, 240, 241, 264, 265,
267 in ink by the original writer; for the rest another hand has supplied
the numbering of the alternate odd pages 5-271, on the recto, in pencil.
September, 1812.
Label: J. Tzetzae Epistolae.
Title: f. la: Lettres de Jean tzetzes, copiées par. Gr. G. Zalycos
d’aprés le Manuscrit no. 2644. de la bibliotheque impériale de Paris,
ce Septembre 1812.
Contents: 107 Letters of Iohannes Tzetzes. Incip., f. 2a: Ἔπισ-
τολαὶ Ἰωάννου Thérlov. ἐπιστολὴ πρώτη. To [eA] εὐλαβεστάτῳ
διακόνῳ κυρίῳ ᾿Επιφανίῳ, τῷ ἀνεψιῷ τοῦ Σίδης. Πυνθάνομαι ὡς παρὰ σοὶ
τινὲς ἐπιφυλλίδες.--Εὐρίϊο. (letter πο. 107), f. 271α: καὶ πρὸς θεὸν
ἱλαστήριος ἔντευξις :-+ The last leaf of quire 12 15 blank. In the margin:
from the same hand, variant readings of MS. 2750; pp. 190 (last line)
—198 (1. 8) are shown by a marginal note to be from 2750, because at
this point a leaf is missing from 2644; on pp. 218, 223, 227, 247 variants
from 2750 are supplied on slips of paper pasted in the margin. There
are, besides a number of marginal notes, conjectural emendations,
markings of quotations, etc., in a different hand—On the inside of
the front cover is written: (1) in pencil, se (2) in ink [Π. G.
Hamaker|]. Underneath is pasted a slip cut from some_bookseller’s
catalogue: Tzetzes, Joh., Epistolae, Manuscrit en grec, de 270 pages.
d. v. 4to. Copie de la main de G. G. Zalycos d’aprés le manuscrit
no. 2644 de la Bibliothéque nationale ἃ Paris, faite en 1812. Ajouté
un écrit autographe de J. Geel sur ces lettres et une lettre de D. J. υ.
Lennep ἃ ce sujet. (For these see nos. 82 and 87.) Johannes Tzetzes
is well known as a voluminous Byzantine writer of the twelfth century
(flor. 1180).
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57. (It. 1.) Boccaccro, Il Filocolo.
58.
Paper, ff. 160, in 16 quires of 10, em. 2921.5, 2 columns, 39-45
lines. Occasional column rulings on both sides. Quire signatures at
lower right-hand corner of last versos. Berlin Purchase no. 33. 1456.
Label: Bocca(ccio) I] Filoco(lo). Cod. Ann. 1456.— Binding,
half leather, flowered pasteboard sides.
Contents: Boccaccio, Il Filocolo. Five books. JIncip., f. la:
[M]ancate gia en tanto le forze del valoroso popolo.—Ezplic., f. 159b:
felicemente consumo li giurni della sua vita. deo gratias am(en)
am(en) am(en). The concluding chapter is a sort of envoi; ff. 159d-
160a. Incip.: o piccolo mio libretto ad me piu anni—Exzplic.: La
cui vita nelle mani della tua donna amore conservi:
Below in the same hand this colophon: Finissia el quinto 6 l’ ultimo
libro del Filocolo deo gratias. amen. Iste liber scriptus est manu mei
Angeli Blasii de gualdo in eadem terra gualdi sub anno domini millesimo
iiiiclvi. Indictione quarta. tempore sanctissimi in christo patris et
domini. domini calisti divina providentia pape tertii die vero decima
octava mensis aprilis Amen (f. 160a).
Callistus III was pope 1455-58. Gualdo in Umbria is probably
meant, though a monastery of 8. Maria de Gualdo in the diocese of
Beneventum may be intended. A catalogue clipping prefixed to no. 26
describes this Angelo as a Spaniard in the Convent of 8. Croce, partly
through a misunderstanding of this colophon. There are occasional
notes in another hand. Spaces have been left for large initials, but
these have not been supplied. The manuscript is well written.
(It. 2.) Costumi e Morte di Papa Alessandro VI Contrario Al P. F:
Girolamo Savonarola da Ferrara del ordine de Predicatort.
Paper, ff. 12, cm. 1913.3, single columns, of 15 lines, 1 quire.
The leaves are paged 1-21 (ff. 2a-12a). Appended in binding to Razzi,
Vita di F. Girolamo Savonarola (no. 62). Century XVII?
Contents: Costumi e Morte di Papa Alessandro 6° [[de’ Medici]
contrario Al P: Fra Girolamo Savonarola da Ferrara del ordine de
Predicatori, etc., f. la. Incip.: Costumi e Morte di Papa Alessandro
6° [46 Medici]] Contrario Al P. F: Girolamo Savonarola da Ferrara del
ordine de Predicatori. Certamente che a prima vista non pud recare
f. 2a (=p. 1).—Ezplic.: rendendo grazie a Dio nel nome di Padre di
figliolo e Spirito Sancto Amen (f. 12a, p. 21).
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60.
De Medici, following the name of Alessandro 6°, has been erased
again on f. 10a (=p. 19) 1. 9.
(It. 3.) Grecorio, Moralt.
Paper, ff. 217, cm. 29.122, double columns, 34-45 lines, 24 quires
of 10, except the 1st (prefatory) (4), 4th (8), 12th (2), and 24th (8).
Most of f. 125 has been torn out. The quires, except the prefatory one,
have been lettered with the Latin alphabet, ὃ, 0, v, and z being omitted.
Column rulings at the top and sides. Initial capitals and titles in red.
A pair of parchment fly-leaves (from another, perhaps a former, binding ?
cf. last parchment fly-leaf) and a pair of paper ones at each end. The
prefatory quire shows a later hand than the body of the manuscript.
Berlin Purchase no. 21. Century XV.
Label: MolJrali di 5. Greg. [Papa. These words are also written in
print-capitals on the second paper fly-leaf, recto.
Contents: S. Gregorio Papa, Morali, ten books. Ff.1a-3a. Notes
(Notae) on various chapters. IJncip.: Supra notantur capituli istius
operis. Prologo. Nota virtus obediencie (f. 1a).—Ezplic.: In capitulo
xxvi Nota de condicoribus saevicie mundane et de simplicitate iustorum
(f. 3a). Ff. 5a-237a, The Morali. Jncip.: Al Reverendissimo et san-
tissimo fratre suo leandro compagno suo vescovo Gregorio servo di servi
de dio, f. 5a.—Exzplic.: per questa divisione egli prende in se medesmo
spacio di potere un poco ryperare.—A list of chapters precedes each
book except the first.
A hint of the history of the manuscript is given at the top of
f. δα: Quisto libro ey del s(eno)re cola marino capece napolitano. The
parchment fly-leaves exhibit various early notes in Latin and Italian,
ff. 1b, 2a, 4a. Pmt. f. 1b, the Pater Noster, in 3 lines, without the
gloria, and with the double amen. Below it, in the same minute hand,
Ave maria gratia plena dominus tecum benedicta tu in mulieribus, etc.
Below, in a coarse hand, a note of six lines on financial matters, begin-
ning: Adi xvii martii xme Ind(ictionis) M°CCCC°LX XXIII Jo andrea
philippo di loffreda aio libre ad catarina di loffreda mia sor(ella), etc.
On pmt. f. 2a, A lo capitulo 111] dilo x libro de lo . . . moralia. Below,
in a later hand, MS joane HIS.—Pmt. f. 4a, Nota Virtus Hobediencie
Nota. Nota de vicia R% Re
(It. 4.) Papal Documents Relating to Missions in China, 1706-
1709.
Paper, ff. 206, cm. 27X20, single columns, ff. 1-162a, 24-26 lines,
ff. 167-204, 32-43 lines, 19 quires, of 6, except nos. 4, 19 (5), 15 (2),
16 (8), and 18 (4). A second hand begins with f. 167a, and completes
the text. Ff. 24, 86b-94b, 162b-166b, 196, 205, 206 are blank. Berlin
Purchase no. 47. 1706-1709.
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61.
Label: practically obliterated.—Fragment of a rectangular number-
label at the bottom of the back.
Contents: Papal documents relating to missions in China.
1. Cenno delle Controversie della Cina per commissione del Sig(no)re
Cardinale Panfili, ff. la-4a. Incip.: Li Cinesi sono i piu cerimoniosi
uomini del mondo.—Explic.: le quali sole da PP. della Compagnia
di Giesu si lasciavano praticare ἃ Cristiani.
2. Alcune riflessioni intorno alle cose presenti della Cina, ff. 40-23b.
3. Copia di una Lettera in risposta ad un gran Prelato, ff. 25a-28a.
4. Osservationi sopra la Risposta del Procu(rato)re del Sig(no)re
Cardinale di Tournon ai cinque Memoriali del P. Provana Presentate
alla Santita di Nostro Sig(no)re Clemente XI, ff. 280-650.
5. Memoriale dato dall’ Inviato del Re di Portogallo alla S(anti)ta
di N. 8. Clemente XI, ff. 66a—-72a.
6. Osservatione intorno all’ esposizione de Riti Cinesi fatta alla
sagra Congrega(tio)ne, ff. 72b-86a.
7. Decretum Patriarchae Antiocheni, ff. 95a-97a. Incip.: Carolus
Thomas Maillard de Turnon Dei et Apostolicae Sedis Gratia Patriarca
Antiochenus.—Explic.: Carolus Thomas Patriarca Antiochenus Visita-
tor Apostolicus. Publicatum Nankini die 7. Februarii 1707. Andrea
Candela Domini Visitatoris Apostolici Cancellarius, et Missionarius
Apostolicus.
8. Actus Appellationis Il(ustrissi)mi et Rev(erendissi)mi Domini
Fratris Alvari Venavente Episcopi Ascalonensis, Vicarii Appostolici
in Regno Sinarum, die 13 Aprilis 1707, 4 Decreto, et Executione Decreti,
de quo infra ad sanctam Apostolicam sedem, ff. 97b-105a.
9. De Praesenti Statu Missionis Sinensis, ff. 105a-149a.
10. Sanctiss(i)mo Ὁ. Ὁ. N. Clementi Papae Undecimo, ff. 149b-
162a. Incip.: Patres soc. Iesu Evangelii Praecones apud Sinas ad
pedum oscula humill[liss]]ime provoluti— Ezplic.: Finis. Questo
Memoriale, 6 Lettera é stato presanto (=presentato) al Papa nel mese
di Maggio 1709.
11. Incip.: Admodum Rev.? in Chr(ist)o Pater, ff. 167a-204b.
In seven paragraphi. Par. 7, ff. 197a-2046, is entitled Querelae Illm
Di. Patriarchae contra Patres Pekinenses. IJncip.: Admodum Rev.:
Pat':—Explic.: Pekini 4 9's 1706. Antonius Thomas—
A price mark in lire is penciled on the verso of the last fly-leaf.
(It. 5.) Ore.
Paper, ff. 138, em. 13.3X9.4, single columns, usually of 18 lines,
13 quires, of 16, except 4th, 7th, and 9th (4), 13th (5), 8th (7), 10th (8),
6th (12), and 12th (14). Rulings on both sides. F. 826 is blank. The
upper half of f. 138 has been torn away. Berlin Purchase no. 42. 1439.
Label: wanting. The manuscript has a parchment cover, much worn.
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Contents: Prayers, hymns, and sermons, Italian and Latin. The
contents are not numbered in the manuscript.
1. Incip.: Gaude flore virginale que honore speciali transcendis
splendiferum, f. la.—Ezplic.: Ubi fructus ventris tui per te nobis
[est]o frui in perenni gaudio. Amen.
2. Benedictiones mense ad prandium domini, etc., ff. 1b, 2a. Ad
introducendum mulieres in ecclesia, psalmus, etc., ff. 2a, ὃ.
3. Sermo pro pace, ff. 3a-13b. After the text in Latin, Ps. 33.
Incip.: Charissimi signori. El preposito de lo mio parlare e recitado.—
Explic.: a la quala gloria dio ne conducha in secula seculorum Amen.
4. De elymosina sermo, ff. 180-140. Incip., after the text, Gal. 6:7:
In.li quale parole si ne amaistra.
5. Bernardus De Misericordia hominis, De Elemosyna, ff. 140, 15a.
6. Praedicatio de mortuis, ff. 16a—-17a.
7. Miraculum, f. 16a. (The dying usurer’s unfaithful executors
punished.)
8. Sermo de gratiarum actio(ne) generalis, ff. 17a-.
9. De elymosina subtracta tempore caristie cuius occasione sanguis
de pane exivit, ff. 176-18).
10. In consecratione ecclesie, ff. 18b—-25a.
11. Sermo generalis i(n) xl®, ff. 25a-29b.
12. In adventu domini, Sermo de evangelio, ff. 30a-32a (Italian).
13. De illo qui scripsit peccata sua, ff. 32a.
14. De dyabolo volente prohibere quendam ne confiteretur, ff. 32a, ὃ.
15. De cruce quod fecit reverentiam cuidam diviti, ff. 32b-33a.
16. In vitis fratrum praedicatorum, ff. 33a-34a.
17. Ad ostendendum capud de mortuo in sermone, ff. 34a-36a.
Incip.: Mirate pecadori la dura sorte, 1 aspera e crudile sentencia, la
quale ne manda questa obscura morte.
18. In die mortuorum sermo, ff. 36a-438a.
19. In quadragessima sermo generalis, ff. 43a—49b.
20. Sermo ad matrimonium, ff. 49b-50b.
21. Sermo in sponsalibus et colatio, ff. 500-516.
22. Iste sunt laude beate Marie virginis, ff. 51b-52a. Incip.: Ave
del cielo soprana inperatrice. 16 lines of verse.
23. Alia laus, ff. 52a-53b. Incip.: Ave del ciel Regina et de la
terra. 60 lines of verse.
24. Ista sunt proverbia vulgaria quorum medium tenendum est,
ff. 54a-56a. Incip.: Ogna tropo sta per nos, pocho focho mal se cose.
78 lines of verse.
25. Various psalms and prayers, ff. 56b-78a: Dilexi, Ad dominum,
Levavi, De profundis, etc.
26. Notum quando aliquis iacet in peccatis scienter et dicit domini-
cam orationem sua oratio minime exauditur, ff. 78b-79a.
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27. De petitionibus orationis dominic(a)e, ff. 79a-80a.
28. Septem dona spiritus sancti, contra vii peccata mortalia, f. 80b.
29. Sermo generalis de penitentia, ff. 81α-82α.
30. Latin maxims in couplets, f. 82a.
31. Rules and prayers for the securing of visions, ff. 82b-83a.
32. Requiem, f. 84a. The notes are mostly of the square character.
The text runs: Requiem eternam dona eis (bis), domine et lux perpetua.
33. Calendar, ff. 85a-90b.
34. De Elymosina sermo (Italian), ff. 91a, ὃ.
35. Various remedies, ff. 92a-95a.
36. Edifying couplets, alphabetically arranged, f. 950.
37. Incipit officium beate marie virginis, ff. 96a-103b. The chants
are provided with music with square notes.
38. Istoria sancti Allexi, ff. 104a-120a. In rhyme. Incip.: O re
de gloria altissimo signore padre celestiale e dolze salvatore.
39. Absolutio generalis, f. 120b.
40. Directions for finding the golden number, and for fixing Easter,
with calendars, etc., ff. 121a—134a. JIncip.: Hic retro in eodem folio
tu reperies quod sit aureus: numerus omni anno incipias ad crucem
ad numerum ubi sunt xv. et numera unum duo tria et sic consequenter,
et ubi reperies numerum millessimi a christi nativitate talis est aureus
numerus illius anni aut luna nova, etc. With the first geometrical
drawing is an inscription beginning, Ilesus M CCCC XXXIX. hec est
tabula pascae resurrectionis domini.
41. Contra febres, vermes, etc., ff. 1340-138 (Latin and Italian).
An acrostic with various scrawls occupies the last part of the last page.
Short paragraphs of Latin occupy the inside of both covers. Inside
the first, a recipe like those at the end of the book; 9 lines beginning:
Ut catene vincule. Inside the rear cover, another recipe, in 13 short
lines, beginning: domine dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen.
On the same cover is penciled a price mark in lire. On f. 84b, a hand
later than the first has written a few words. At the foot of f. 120a:
quatro sancti et sancte sono de una casa e per sancto alexio sono tuti
salvi deo gratias:—yhs (=TIesus) stands at the top of a few pages.
(It. 6.) Serarino Razz, Vita di F. Girolamo Savonarola.
Paper, ff. 318, em. 2719.5, single columns 20-22 lines, 41 quires,
of 8, except the 22d (6), 40th and 41st (4). Pages numbered 1 (f. 2a)—
623 (f. 313a), nos. 413 and 498 being repeated. Berlin Purchase?
Century XVII.
Label: Vita del Padre Savonarola de Predicat. Del P. Razzi.
Below, the number 164, which appears also on the corner of the last
verso, seems to have been effaced. Below again is the number 1590, and
below it 17[[3 or 5117. Αὐ the top of the front cover is the number 131.
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Contents: Vita di F. Girolamo Savonarola Ill. Ordine de Predica-
tori Scritta nel 1590. Dal P. F. Serafino Razzi Ill. ordine sopraddetto
con ogni cautela, f. 1a. Opposite Razzi another hand has written in
the margin, Priore di S. Domenico di Napoli. Jncip.: Al Molto Rever-
endo Padre Fra Filippo Brandolini Priore meritissimo di Convento di
8. Marco di Firenze mio sempre Osservandissimo. Grande certamente
tiene oggi la Serenissima Citta di Firenze, f. 2a (=p. 1).
Prologo Della Vita di F: Girolamo Savonarola, ff. 5a—6a (pp. 7-9).
Della Nascita di F. Girolamo, sua adolescenza e costumi. Capitulo
primo. Fu F: Girolamo Savonarola per origine Padovano per nascita
da Ferrara, f.6b (=p. 10). Ezplic.: Lo reveriamo come martire ren-
dendo grazie a Dio, nel nome del Padre del figliolo e dello Spirito santo
Amen, f. 312a (=p. 619).
Lines entitled Laude dal Servo di Dio trovate nel suo Breviario
(ff. 3126, 313a), and Di S. Maria Maddalena (ff. 313a-314a) follow.
Incip.: Tu sei dolce Giesu signore eterno.—Fzplic.: se del tuo lume
santo fiamme accese. FY. 315-318, Indice.
Inside the first cover is written Ex B. 7 (or T), and below it in another
hand, Mayerhoff. At the foot of the last verso, Pobratto (or Potratto ?)
is written, inverted. Appended to the manuscript and within the
same covers is another, a small quire of 12 leaves, entitled Costumi e
Morte di Papa Alessandro VI Contrario Al P: Fra Girolamo Savonarola,
etc., which we have described separately (no. 58).
Villari, in his Life and Times of Savonarola, says that Razzi’s Vita
is a compilation from Pico and Burlamacchi, and that his works exist
in manuscript in the Magliabecchian, Riccardian, and Laurentian
libraries (I, xli, xlii). In pursuance of this suggestion we have examined
the Razzi manuscripts in the National Central Library, in the Uffizi
Palace at Florence, into which the Magliabecchian Library was merged
in 1860. The Magliabecchian manuscript (xxxvii, 1, cod. 294) entitled
Della Vita e Dottrina del RPF Girolamo Savonarola Difensione Gen-
erale . Fra Serafino Razzi, begins thus: A Benigni Lettori Salute nel
Signore. Perche importa assai con qual animo, etc., f. 2a. Like the
manuscript under discussion the Magliabecchian concludes with verse:
Di alcune Rime spirituali composte dal servo di Dio Fra Ieron(i)mo,
f. 232 ff. In the same National Central Library is another work of
Razzi’s, formerly in the Badia, entitled Vita e Morte di Fra Girolamo
Savonarola da Ferrara dell’ ordine de Frati Predicatori e P? Reformatore
della Congregazione de FF. di 5. Marco di Firenze. Descritta da F.
Serafino Razzi, ... . 1590. This is a work in 65 chapters (ff. 553),
and after an epigram (f. 16), begins with an address to Brandolini, as
does the Chicago manuscript. The latter does not, however, fully agree
with either of the Florence manuscripts we examined, and seems to
be a different treatment of the same general subject by the same writer.
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64.
SPANISH
(Span. 1.) Breviario de Amor.
Paper, ff. 233 (6+-cexxvii), em. 3323.5, two columns, 35-37 lines,
24 quires, of 10, except the Ist (6) and 24th (7). After the table of con-
tents, quire 1, the leaves are numbered in Roman. Column rulings on
both sides. Berlin Purchase no. 35. Probably century XIV-XV.
Label: Breviario de Amor. The oval paper label, found on nos.
2, 6, 12, 14, 17, 18, 39, 47, 54, 65, numbered 17 has been applied over a
smaller rectangular label.
Contents: Breviario de Amor, o sia Trattato di diverso cose spirituali
Teologiche. This title in a late hand, at the top of f. la.
1. Table ‘of contents, with corresponding leaf numbers, f. 1a—6b.
Incip.: En nombre de nuestro sefior ihu xpo sea e de la gloriosa Virgen
sefiora santa maria Comiencgan las Rubricas deste libro llamado brevi-
ario de amor.—Evzplic.: Sermon del advenimiento del spu santo ni
por qual Razon fue embiado en tal manera.
2. The Rubricas, ff. i-cexxvii. At the top of f. la, ihs+xps+.
Incip.: ἘΠ maestro Ruega a nuestro sefior dios que le de gra de bien dezir
ede la obra complir amen. A picture in pen and ink of a figure kneeling
in prayer with another bending over him from the heavens follows.
The text then begins as follows: [P]or quanto el se so 6 el entendimiento
e el saber e la subtilidad el engenio procede e desciende de la sanctissima
6 individua trinidad.—Explic.: e en tal manera vendras por tal camino
a la gloria de paraiso donde estan e habitan los santos e hauras con
ellos en uno gloria e bien aventuranga sin fin con aquel que vive e
regna alto en el cielo por infinita secula seculorum amen. Finito libro
sit laus 6 gloria xpo, f. ecxxviia.
Several pages are left blank, vib, xxxiiiib, xxxva, xxxviiia, lxiib, xevb,
exviid, clib. A price mark in lire is penciled on the verso of the last
fly-leaf. ᾿
This encyclopaedic work embraces a body of divinity, concise
treatises on astronomy, natural history, and ethics, and the articles of
the faith, concluding with a sketch of gospel history. The Berlin list
calls it the “original of the Floro del gay saber.”
(Span. 2.) ALExo Sateapo Correa, Libro Nombrado memorial
de Martires de Hespafia.
Paper, ff. 390, (viii 239 - 148) cm. 22.7X16.7, single columns,
usually 16 lines. 33 quires of 12, except the Ist (9), and 33d (8). A
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printed plate has been inserted in quires 1 and 21, following ff. iii and
238 (head of Christ), and in quire 33 following f. 140 of Part II (coat of
arms). The leaves are numbered, beginning with the 2d quire, from
1-238, then after the inserted plate, from 1-140. The first leaf of quire
1 was left blank, as fly-leaf, as were ff. 142 and 143 of Part II. No
rulings. Berlin Purchase no. 46. Century XVI.
Label: wanting. The book shows no sign of having had one.
Contents: Libro Nombrado Memorial de Martires de Hespajfia.
Compuesto por Alexo Salgado Correa en verso Hespajiol, en estilo de
Sonetos, que contiene dos partes. Quei en la primera se Refieren
gloriosos martirios . . . en los tiempos . . . desde el emperador Nero
hasta los emperadores Diocleciano y Maximiano. . .
Y en la segunda parte se Refieren assimesmo gloriosos martirios
. en la ciudad de Cordova Reinando en ella 105 Moros Arabes
Abdarrahgman tercero, y Mahomat su hijo, Abdarrahgman su nieto.
Fueron estas obras traduzidas de las autenticas scripturas que en la
prefacion de este libro se Refieren . . . f. ia.
1. Prefatory material, ff. ia—viiib, including a dedication, f. iia, A
la catolica real Majestad del Rey Don Philippe Nuestro Sefior (i.e.
Philip II), and two sonnets addressed to Christ, f. iv. Incip.: Imagen
suavissima gustosa de mi Dios Ihesu Christo salvador; and the Pref-
facion de Alexo Salgado Correa sobre estos memoriales, ff. 5a—6b, in
which the author acknowledges his indebtedness to certain works,
particularly of Ambrosio de Morales and Florian do Campo—libros
impresos y publicados y venidos a mis manos y leidos en breves oras
de la Recreagion de mis occupaciones publicas y studios de mi juridica
proffession, f. 6a. These are followed by four preliminary sonnets, ff.
viia-viiib.
2. Part I, ff. la-2396. Sonnets on the Early Martyrs, with an alpha-
betic table of Martyrs treated, ff. 234a-238b. F. 239 (plate of the
head of Christ) really forms the frontispiece to Part II. JIncip.: Pues
Dios honrra sus sanctos grandemente.—Ezplic.: En perssonas de tantas
qualidades de varias suertes, sexos, y edades.
3. Part II, ff. la-141b. Sonnets on the Later Martyrs, ff. 1α-18θα.
Title: Comienga la proposicion de la Segunda parte deste libro en que
se trata de los Sanctos que en Cordova fueron martirizados, en tiempo
de los Arabes Mahometanos, f. la. IJncip.: Nuestros martires sanctos
gloriosos.—Explic.: agora y por siempre jamds, Amen. With an
alphabetic table of the martyrs treated, ff. 137a-140a. F. 14la is a
printed coat of arms, with the motto IHESVS SEMPER ET VBIQVE.
F. 1410 is written over with Latin texts from Galatians and Corinthians.
The book is still fastened with two brass clasps. At the top of fly-
leaf ia, 80 . . is written. The edges are tooled and gilded, and the
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letter A (Alexo?) is inscribed on the outer edges. The leather-bound
covers are adorned with a double eagle under a coronet at each corner
and καὶ surmounted with a crown in the center. The form of the manu-
script plainly shows the influence of printed books.
The manuscript would seem to be the autograph of Correa. Another
work of his is mentioned in Antonio, Bibl. Hispana Nova, I, 1783, p. 9b:
Regimiento de Jueces: printed at Hispali Apud Martinum de Montes-
doca, 1556, in 4.
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65. (Fr. 1.) ArmManD LE BoUTHILLIER DE Ranck, Examen des
Reflexions du ἢ. P. Mabillon.
Paper, ff. 508, em. 48.929, including 1 fly-leaf. Quires 1-11 of 6
leaves; the others are too tightly bound to be determined. Single
columns, 16-23 lines. A page numbering, 2-1012, runs from f. 3b to the
end. Nos. 406, 407, 983 are omitted; no. 984 is repeated. Berlin
Purchase no. 49. Ca. 1750.
Label: Examen des Reflexions du R. P. Mabillon. At the bottom
is an oblong paper label bearing the number VI (cf. nos. 1, 5, 11, 51, 52),
and over this the remains of an oval one like that on nos. 2, 6, 12, 14,
17, 18, 39, 47, 54, 63, which still bears the number 1. On the front
and back covers are the arms of Pius VI (pope 1775-99), which also
appear on nos. 47-49. On the front-paper, recto, the name Mont-
faucon is written, as though he were the owner of the manuscript.
But B. Montfaucon died in 1741, and the watermark is 1742.
Contents: Examen des Reflexions du R. P. Mabillon. On the
front-paper, verso, below a drawing of the sacred heart:
Ainsi tendre Jesus, Pelican adorable!
Tu nourris tes enfans de ton Sang précieux:
Ainsi ton sacré coeur est un banquét durable
Qui leur offre en tous tems un méts delicieux.
F. 507a bears a similar drawing of the heart of Mary, pierced by a sword;
above, Sacré Coeur de Marie: below:
Voici du pur Amour le centre et le modelle,
Approchons-nous de cet ardent brasier,
Tl nous pénétrera d’une flamme immortelle,
Qui de nos coeurs amolira l’acier.
1. Avertissement. Incip., f. la: Quand le R. P. Mabillon eut la
charité de me venir voir aprés la publication de son Livre des Reflexions.
—Erzplic., f. 1b: Dans le fond, j’ai toujours eu du respect et de la charité
pour lui; mes sentimens se sont augmentez dans les rencontres, et je
les conserverai jusqu’a la mort.—Ornament below.
2. Examen des Reflexions que le R. P. Mabillon a faites sur la
Réponse a son Traité des Etudes. Incip., f. 2a, p. 1: Je m’étois
imaginé, Mes Freres, que ce que j’avois dit sur le Traité des Etudes
Monastiques du R. P. M. satisfesoit aux raisons dont il s’étoit servi
pour en établir la necessité. An elaborate ornament precedes the title. —
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Explic., ἴ. 5066, p. 1012: son Esprit, a qui seul il appartient de faire
des choses miraculeuses. “Θὰ facit mirabilia magna solus.” Fin.
In the margin: Ps. 71.19. At the bottom of the page, below a cherub:
Nota, ce manuscrit est fait en coulée et batarde Angloise——The back-
paper, recto, exhibits a price mark in lire.
This treatise is the final answer of Armand le Bouthillier de Rancé,
the founder of the Trappists, in his debate with Mabillon on the question,
Should monks occupy themselves with scientific study? the Abbé de
La Trappe maintaining the negative. Overcome by the personal charm
of Mabillon, de Rancé never published this or any other answer. The
watermark bears the name of an Auvergne maker, and the date 1742.
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66. (Ger. 1.) Book of Devotions.
Paper, ff. 188, cm. 14.29.7, in 23 quires of 8, except the 22d (11)
and 23d (4). One fly-leaf in front. The paper guards in front and back,
on which there was writing in a modern hand, have been partly torn out,
showing underneath parchment with the lines of the musical staff.
Over the parchment, above and beneath, are bits of red leather, probably
the remains of a leather cover. Only the boards of the binding, with
traces of a clasp, now remain. The manuscript proper is in single
columns, 15-19 lines, no ruling. The beginnings of sections are marked
in red, and an ornamental initial stands at the top of f. 153a (151a).
There are at least two hands, the second beginning with f. 31b. An
old hand (perhaps more than one, probably contemporaneous with the
writing of the book) has inserted an irregular folio numbering, running
from 1-32, 34-38, 38-68, 68, 39, 40-44, 85, 46-100. A modern hand
has corrected the old in pencil, and continued the numbering of all the
folia originally written upon throughout to ff. 163. Berlin Purchase
no. 55. Probably century XV.
Label: wanting.
Contents: A collection of mediaeval devotional literature.
1. Meditations, somewhat in the style of Thomas ἃ Kempis. JIncip.,
f. la: Deo caritas est got ist die liebe und wer da blybt in der lieb der
blybt in got und got in im.—Ezplic., f. 112a (81a): O guder Jhesu ich
will entphangen den kylche der heylsamkeyt und den namen des hern
will ich ewigliche loben und gebenedyen. Amen Deo graltilas.
2. A series of religious stories: (a) Incip., f. 1138a (82a): Der bose
geist wart off eyn zijt gefragt war in er die groste freyde hett.—Explic.,
f. 1136: vorware man kan mir keyn groszer freyd angediine. (6) Incip.,
f. 1138b: Eyn exempel von eyn Coster Esz ist gewest eyn Coster Cistercer
orden in dem Closter zu Calliz.—Ezplic., f. 119@ (88a): und der koster
sagt synen apt wasz eme begenet wasz und der apt sagt ysz synen brii-
dern umb yrs lebes Amen. (ὁ) Incip., f. 119b (880): Von eyner hiisz
dyrnne Esz was eyn eynsiedel in eyn wald.—Explic., ἴ. 1240 (93b):
dasz ich lone sall haben mit [[der der]] der die ferr und wit uber mich
gewircket hatt. (d) Incip., f. 124b: Von eynen eynfeldigen beck|[g]]-
yngyn Isz wasz eyn eynfeldiges beckingyn in eym gots huszgin.—
Explic., ἔ. 129a (98a): so will ich eiich das helge sacrament nit versagen.
3. Rules for the proper observance of Lent, ending with rules for
the government of a monastery. Incip., f. 129a: Wasz dit bedrachten
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salt und got dancken zii iglicher stiinden syns lydens vor dyn siinde.—
Explic., £.131b: Aber wan man die cleynen dinge lasst vergen so ist isz
unmogeliche dasz die andern die lenge blyben stene.
4. Brief practical rules, perhaps those of some monastic order.
Incip., ἴ. 1816: Die wile yzu(n)t so grosz spaltiing in allen Cristen ist
weysz ich dir zii der seligkeyt keyn weg der gewiszer ist dan folge diszem
biichelin festiglich —Explic., f. 138a: und es kompt die zijt dasz es ene
selber riiwet und all menschen werden eine grame.
5. Astory. Incip., f. 188a: Ich weysz eyn menschen der kame zit
eyner stat da fiel béser geist waren.—Ezplic., {. 140a: vor diszer frunt-
schafft behude uns got all Amen.
6. Exhortations in allegorical style. Incip., f. 140a: Dasz hesselin
hatt IX eygenschafft—Ezplic., f. 150b: wan eyn clostermensch miisz
fiel liistes entbern dasz die werntlichen haben.
7. A miracle story. Incip., f. 158α (151α): Eyn schone mirakel
von der helgen frauwen sant Annen unszer frauwen miitter und ist
kértzliche geschien. Isz wasz eyns gewaltigen raits mansz sone.—
Explic., f. 1610 (1596): und III wieschen licht geyn ene dryn Jhesus
Marie Anna und mit almiisen geben [[und sal sprechen yrem bilde mit
ynnigkeit]].
8. A story. IJncip., f. 169a (160a): Eyn exempel. Es wasz eyn
andechtig geystliche und sere eynfeldig mensche.—Ezplic., f. 172b
(1088): darumb sollen wir got groszliche dancken dasz er uns dicke
unszer begerung entziiget und uns dar durch behiidet vor sunden—deo
gratias.
On the blank leaves in the rear portion of the manuscript, the first
known layman-owner has written a brief family chronicle with various
memoranda. His hand appears first on f. 163a: Anno 1669 den 28. tag
Aprilis. F. 163b contains a superstitious note of a murder committed
on “Creutzerfindungs”-day, 1669, which in that year fell on a Friday.
The rest of ff. 163-165 is taken up with memoranda of children at whose
baptism the owner or his wife stood sponsor. F.173a, the family chron-
icle. Incip.: Anno 1669 den 20. Dag Januarij. Hab ich mein frau zur
Ehe. . . Ernst Lorentz Paulij Maria Magdalena Pauly geboren. . . .
—Explic., after memoranda of a number of children with date of birth
and name, f. 173b: Ano 1718 den 10 februari ist mein Vater sehlich
entschlaffen. Johannus Pauli hat dis geschriben. The hand of the son
is decidedly less fine than that of the father. F. 174a the hand of the
father reappears. Incip.: Wasz ich Lorentz Paulij jarlich vor bes-
chwarnusz und zinsen gebe . . . Explic., f. 175a: It(em). In dasz
Hb. Hohenfelts Hausz Jarlich {[ein]] 1 vierdell Korn. On f. 1810, in the
midst of a scrawl, containing pious maxims, etc., another member,
probably of the same family, has written: Adam Paull zu Bamberg.
In 1723 the book changed owners, shown by a note in the new owner’s
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hand at the foot of f. 140b: Geschrieben den 8. T. abrill Henrich
wejandt 1723. The same hand has inserted various scrawls, partly in
bad Latin, here and there throughout the book.
(Ger. 2.) Hymn and List of Books.
Paper, ff. 4, cm. 19.515, single column, varying number of lines.
Late XVI century.
Contents: I. Vomgreulichen laster des volsauffens ein schoner Bergk-
reye. The first verse is then written twice, once each under music in the
base and tenor clef. There are 24 verses in all. Verse 1: Grosgunstige
lieben Hern, Grosgunstige lieben Hern, ich wolt euch gerne singen, wens
euch nit wolt beschwern. Verse 24: Soviel es Kan gesein, : || : wie er
hierin nit zweiffelt, Solt ihr auch willigen drein. Finis. Ff. 1a—-2b.
II. A remnant of a list of books, ff. 3a, b.
10. Ein einfeltig bedenken aus heiliger gotlicher schrifft ob man in
vnsern kirchen mit gutten gewissen einigerley Enderung thun muge,
dem interim zu gefallen.
11. Das nie néter gewest ist wider den romischen antichrist zu
schreiben, vnd predigen, den itzt zu der adiaphoristen zeiten, Nicolaus
von amsdorff.
12. Eine freidige vermanung, zu klarem vnd offentlichem bekentnis
jhesu Christi, wider die adiaphoristische klugheit vnd heucheley, durch
Ciuilium einen italianer.
13. Antwort Matth. flac: illijri: auff etliche beschuldigung D. Ge.
Maiors, vnd D. pommers.
14. Das D. pommer, vnd D. Maior mit iren adiaphoristen ergernis
ynd zertrennung angericht haben, vnd nicht wir zu Magdeburg, wie
sie vns schuld geben Niclas vonn amsdorff.
15. Die rechte merckzeichen, dabey beide der Christ vnd antichrist
eigentlich zuerkennen petrus arbiter.
16. Eine schrifft der theologen zu Wittenberg Anno, 1540, wider
[[di. . ἢ] die Adiaphoristen geschrieben, daraus zu vernemen das sie
itzt wider sich selbst sind.
17. Recusation schrifft der christlichen augspurgischen Confessions
verwandten stende, wider das trientische Concilium, mit einer vorrede
Matth. fla. 111}: vnd Nicolai Galli.
18. Wunderbarliche gesicht, am Himmel vnd wolcken zu weisensehe
in Déringen den 19. februarij gesehen Anno 1554.
The missing numbers of this book list show that at least two, possibly
four, leaves are missing from the middle of the quire. On the lower
margin of f. 3a stands the number 767, the 6 being written with heavy
stroke over another 7. F.4is blank. The paper is thick and of some-
what coarse grain, but tough and of good quality. Watermark: arms
of quaint design.
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68. (Ger. 3.) Jon. Maturstius, Kirchen-, Schul- und Spitalordnung.
Chronicle of the Rammelsberg mines.
Paper, ff. 140, em. 3319.6 (20.5), in 12 quires, nos. 1 (14), 2 and
3 (2), 4, 8, 9, 10 and 11 (12), 5 (10), 6 (4), 7 (31), 12 (17); single columns,
27-39 lines. An old page numbering in ink, 1-61 on ff. 45a-75a.
Hengstenberg? Mathesius, 1551; Chronicle, 1527-1583.
Label: fragmentary, illegible. Underneath, 4.
Contents: 1. Mathesius, Kirchen-, Schul- und Spitalordnung, ff. 1α-
16a. F. 1a, title and dedication: Ein kurtzer Bericht, von der Lehr
undt Ceremonien der christlichen Kirchen in 8. Joachimsthal gestelt
durch den alten Herrn Johann Mathesium Ein Sendbrief an einen guten
Freiindt, von der Lehr und Ceremonien in St. Joachimsthal Gonstiger
lieber Herr undt Freiindt, auf eiier emsigs Begeren, und anhalten, hab
ich eiich in vyl willfahren wollen, und mit warheit berichten, wie es
dieser Zeit bey uns in der Kirch, Schul, and Spital gehalten wirdt,
wie es sich denn (Gottlob) in Werk, und taglichen Wesen sehen, und
erfinden leszet. Bitte ibr wollet mit dieser kurtzen schrift auf diszmal
vorgut nehmen, und Gottes Wort, als viel an euch ist wie ein trewer undt
warer Joseph, férdern helfen, so wird Gott ewern Ephraim und Manasze
wider segnen, und sie auch zu Ecksteinen inn Iszrael machen. Gott
undt seiner Gnade trewlich befohlen Datum in St. Joachimsthal, am
_ tag purificationis Mariae M.D.LI Mathesius. Incip., f. 1b: Von der
Lehr. Man prediget in dieser kirchen das Gesetz Gottes und Evange-
lion.—Ezplic., f. 16a: Dasz soll mein lebenslang, mit allen Christen,
meines Hertzen Wunsch und sehnliches Gebete sein, Amen lieber
Herre Jesu Christe, Amen. Ff. 16b, 17, and 18 are blank.
2. Chronicle of the Rammelsberg Mines, ff. 19a-140b. A. Incip.,
f. 19a: Rammelsbergsche bergwerck last sich 80 1527 wohl an. The
last date in this section is 1583.—Ezplic., f. 42b: . . . Petro Adenero.
Ff. 43, 44 are blank.
B. Incip., f. 45a: Von Aufkommen der Bergwercke Steigens und
fallens. Von Ambts Persohnen undt Geschichten der Bergstidte.
Wir kommen nun wiederumb zu unsern.—Explic., f. 75a: dadurch die
beschreibung zuriicke undt nachgeblieben. F. 76b bears the legend:
Von etlichen Articuln so der alte mann nach Bergrecht und Bergord-
nunge gehalten.
C. Incip., f. 76a: Nach dieser Zeit und letzten auflaszung sind die
Bergwercke eine geraume lange Zeit sonderlichen bey uns hier auf dem
Hartze dieser jetzigen Bergstadte ungebauet beliegen blieben. The
last date given in this section is 1568.—Ezplic., f. 140b: allen Bericht des
Rammelsbergischen Berg- und Hiitten Wercks begehret undt gefodert.
The lower half of f. 140 is torn out.
Mathesius’ pamphlet is probably his autograph. The three sec-
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tions of the Chronicle are in as many different hands. The last section
is accompanied by Latin marginal notes in a scrawling hand. On the
inside of the front cover, in a hand more modern than any in the manu-
script, is the note: 9 Symbolis fol. 4. Interesting watermarks: a kobold
over the letters A H HB on the one, a crowned bell on the other half-
leaf; RW on one, a lamb within a wreath on the other half-leaf; a
galloping unicorn of clumsy design.
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ENGLISH
(Eng. 1.) Jonn Liprrott, Collectanea Curiosa: Transcripts of
Poetry by Different Wits. 1786.
Paper, ff. 194, em. 19.6 15.8, in 12 quires of 16, except 1 (14) and
5 and 12 (18). Written in various ways—sometimes across, some-
times up and down the page, sometimes inverted (ff. 191-193). For the
most part in the hand of John Liptrott. University of Chicago Acces-
sion 263337, f. 2a; at foot of page, 46721 stamped. 1786-1825.
Label: Mss | Poetry—Below, in faded ink, a number. On the
front cover:
5 Ῥ 9 R
Sancte Pater Quare Rides
Rideo Quia Papa Sum
1786
Collectanea curiosa.
In English,
A Collection of Curiosities.
Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn!
The last line is perhaps in another hand.
Contents: Extracts of prose and poetry, besides some original
verses by John Liptrott, written in his hand through a series of years,
1786-1825. ‘Title: Transcripts of poetry (by different wits) Oct ye
17th, 1786. John Liptrott. Incip.: Sir Thos. Wyatt of Allington
Castle in Kent, the first writer of satire worth notice, f. 16.—Ezplic.:
there is a diminution in its pressure of many thousand pounds, f. 1910.
The extracts include fugitive poems amusing or ambitious, but of
small merit; epitaphs, passages from works of travel, etc. A loose leaf
in the same hand is inclosed, together with numerous clippings from
contemporary newspapers.
Notes: Inside the front cover is the book plate or label of Blamire,
Bookseller and Stationer, No. 5, Strand, etc. Above: Archbishop
Sancroft’s transcripts of Poetry are now in the Bodleian library. J. L.
Below, Horace*—Laughing, to teach the truth What hinders? As
some teachers give to boys’ Junkets and knacks y* they may learn
apace. *Sat.i.i.24 >From Apol Smectym . . Prose works, vol. 1.
(Eng. 2.) JosepH Spence, Poems, Latin and English.
Paper, ff. 84, em. 19.3 12.2, in 11 quires of 8, except Ist (5) and 2d
(7). Ff. 610-840 blank. Ff. 7a-61a paged 1-109. The handwriting is
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very probably that of Spence himself. University of Chicago Acces-
sion 263296. 1722 (p. 22)-1730 (p. 108).
Contents: Poems, Latin and English, for the most part by Joseph
Spence. The following table occupies f. 3a ff.:
Odes:
1. Ode 4 in Luem Massiliensem, ad C: Pitt.................. 1
2. “ Epistolaris, ad eundem.................-222.0ee0e- 3
3. “ In antiquam Britonum virtutem.................... 5
4. “ Quinque Veneris gradus.............. 00. ceeeeeeees 7
5. “ In obitum Cl: Poetae, M: Pryor................... 8
6. “ Amantium mores............... 0c eee eee eee eee 10
7. “ Inobitum Cl: Militis, D: Dormer.................. 11
8. “ Ad amicum uxorem ducturum...................... 14
Translations:
(a) Philoctetes: a Speech of his from Sophocles... .. pak ae 15
(6) Venus, a Satir on her from Guarinis’ Past: Fido......... 17
(c) Horaces 16 Ode, lib: 2, paraphras’d.................... 18
English Originals:
(1) To Mr. Pitt: on his Plague of Marseilles................ 20
(2) To. Mr. Jones on his Oppian.................2000000 eee 22
(3) Epistle from a Swiss Officer to his friend at Rome........ 24
(ὦ) Song of Deborah, paraphras’d....................0000- 26
(e) David’s Lamentation over Saul & Jonathan............. 28
(f) The Crucifixion: from an Ode of Mr. Masters........... 30
(4) Epistle on Similies...............0. 00.0.0... cee eee 32
9. Soteria ad Rev. Doctorem Cheyney, Ode............... 35
(g) Horace’s 4 Ode, lib: 2, paraphras’d.................... 37
(5) Epistle on the Mechanery of Brutes.................... 39
(6) The Art of Beauty. In 2 Cantos...................04. 43
Latin Originals:
a’. Certamen Poeticum, Nov. Col. institutum.............. 60
Bhs MMU εὐ νον sce acer estate Ps seis a dhe μευ ρος AE ogee SMe 62
10. In obitum Cl. Doctoris Cheyney. Ode................ 66
", Scenici Itinerantes.............0. 00.000 cee eee eee eee ee 67
(h) The Vision: from Hab. 3............... 0.00. c eee eee 69
(7) Ὁ. of Wharton’s letter to Mr. Floyd, Answered.......... 73
δ΄. Tyro Reginensis........... 0.0... ccc ccc eee eeeeeeucees 74
(8) Ode against Knowledge.............. 0.0.0. c cece eeeee 76
11. Alter Georgius. Ode........000. 00000. e cece eee eee 79
(ἢ Interview of Hector & Andromache, from Il: 6.......... 81
(9) To Mr. Ramsay: on his Cyrus..............0..00000eee 85
(10) The Charliade..........0. 00.0. c eee eeee 88
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(The last four page nos. should be 80, 82, 86, 89.) Incip.: Ode Prima
Lues Massiliensis. ad Authorem ejusdem tituli Poematis. Qualis
minister turbinis angelus (f. 7a=p. 1).—Ezplic.: Mr. his
answer to y® E. of The notes (f. 6la=p. 109). On a loose
leaf, pinned to f. 2, is a paragraph of verse beginning Must lose in
[[mood]] guise too hateful, etc.; tentative translations of Aeneid 1:251-3;
265, 6; 750-6. 20 lines, somewhat scratched.
On f. 6b, a note of 11 lines. Incip.: Poetam etiam—; quam bonum
nihil ad rem. Inside the first cover, a note: Purchased at the sale of
Russell Cook in the Isle of Wight.
Joseph Spence (1699-1768) is known by his Essay on Pope’s Trans-
lation of the Odyssey (1726), his Polymetis (1747), and his Anecdotes
of Pope (published 1820). He was professor of poetry at Oxford,
1728-1738. For some notices of him are we indebted to Professor
W. D. MacClintock.
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71. (Dutch 1.) Land leases of the Count of Holland.
Parchment, f. 1, in 2 pieces, each cm. 1610.8, from the fly-leaves
of a volume containing:
(1) Pascosii Roberti ...in Lamentationes Ieremiae . . . opus
. . . nunquam antehac visum, nec typis excusum. Below, Coloniae, ex
officina Eucharii Anno M.D.XXXII. Pp. (16)+334.
(2) Albini . . . in Ecclesiasten Commentaria. Below, Basileae, ex
officina Bebeliana, M.D.XXXI. Pp. 126. The whole in a stiff pigskin
folder; number 722 on back and side. The pieces form the upper part
of a single leaf, written on both sides. 17-21 lines. Both margins are
double ruled on the recto; a trace also on verso. 1453-54. ΄
Recto: Lease of lands in Texel.
An der ontfang [va]n mijns genad (igen)
heren goeden en(de) rent[en] in Texel
Van den kornthienden in Texel vian djen rentsoenen van d(en)
lampthienden van den wintmole[n valn den val? geldel|
van den meylanden van den vogely[ . . -] van den geersten
ald(us)
Al welke parceelen verpacht zij[n ge]weyst al te samen
mit allen horen toebehoren ailbr[ . . .] van raephorst scout
van harlem en(de) thomaes van hog{doe]rp eenen t(er)mijn van
XX jaren lang aen een geduernde [. . .Jaende en(de) begin-
nen(de) “
tot Sinte Jans dage midsomer [. dulysent CCCChiii om
die som(m)e van Clvii f. gl vlems glold] Clix Jars te betalen
tot twee termijnen van den Jar[. a Sinte Jan midsom(er)
en(de) kersmisse na wtwijs(ing) ina viors] genad(igen) he(ren)
opene
brieven die zij dar offhebben g[evlen onder tsegel van
hollant den lesten dach in octobry ([MCCC]Cliii en(de) bij
anderen
mijns vors(?) genad(igen) he(re)n brieven glevjen onder zijnen
groten zegel binnen ziynre stede[. . .] brugge den xxv™
dach in april dusent CCCClv π|. incase dar mede
hij belieft en(de) consenteert bij advis[. vaJn d(en) Com(m)is-
sarissen
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van zijnen financien in die verpach[t . .] vors(?) van welken
brieven Copie oerdentlich . . . .[
Verso: Lease of lands in the Harlemmer-hout.
Van den zodeslach i{nde] wildernisse van harle(m)mer hout
welke zoodslach die [. . . }p Cruesner te houden plach zijn
leven lang geduern[ . ᾿ς Inte dar off wtreycken(de) Vertont
van assendel( let a . Jn lijne XXTX"* stilden t . . aers
mijn genad(ige) here ail: . x tegens den vor(ige)n Jacop vry
geleft heeft .e . . hf. dan weren bewijst en(de) gegeve(n)
onder . ander daf . scolutaimbocht van westwoude mit
zijnen toebehoren al. .] a bij des vors rentmeysters
III** rekenn (ing) τοκοπα, -] folio XXXII int artikel mencie
makende van den eo .]n ΕΑΝ ΚΘ Υ dar die vor(ige)n
rentmeyst(er) bij . cs .Jreste dar v. gestelt gelast is
mitten selven zodllacth fed selfs mijns genad(igen) hee(re)n
meeste proffijt . [. . .] en Ende want binnen den tyde
van des(en) rekenn (ing) de[. . vojr(s . .) zodslach nyement en
heeft willen
bewach(?) partijen mo[. . .] eye(re)n admits dat belet en(de)
ongebruc
dat die her. . . bre[ . . .] dar in doet en(de) mantenert zelv(er . .)
dar in gerech. . v[. . .] sonderlinge in zijnen duynen ende
72. (Dutch 2.) Narrative and Documents of an Embassy to Morocco,
1790-1801.
Paper, ff. 241, paged 1-482 (including one half-leaf, pp. 287-288),
em. 32X20, in 59 quires, 14 of 8, 27 of 2, 7 of 4, 5 of 1, 2 of 3, 1 of 9,
1 of 5, 1 of 6, 1 of 16. The quires are numbered (1-59) at upper left-
hand corner of 1st rectos. 1790-1801.
Label: Embassada al Rey de Fez y Marruecos par Juan Enr. Torley
1791-1801. ~
Contents: 1. Reijze van de Captein Jan Hendrijk Torley in eene
Gezantschappije aan de Keyzer van Marocco, in’t jaar 1791 volgends
(fly-leaf, a), pp. 1-218. To this are appended:
2. A series of documents, some of them original, entitled Tratados
de Paz entre Su Magestad el Emperador de Fez y Marruecos y La
Sima Republica Batava. Annos 1791-1801. Colleccion del Capitan del
mar D. Juan Enrique Torley, pp. 221-480. These documents and
extracts are lettered Litt. A—P, still others following. Their dates fall
in the years 1790-1801. They include letters, dispatches, orders,
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accounts, etc., in Dutch, English, and French. Among them are
orders of Admiral (?) Gardner, dated from the Phoebe in Cork
Harbour, 1801; various letters to Capt. Bols, and an account of the
goods and presents taken to Morocco by the expedition. Incip.: Den
28 September gingen wy om, p. 1.—Fxplic.: Embuscade I. Vandervoort,
p. 480.
The front cover bears the book plate of Carl Hopf: Bibliotheca Caroli
Hopfii. No.561(192). N.35. Hisname is written above, and on the
fly-leaf (a) with the date Hamm. d. 1 Jan. 1851; his stamp (C.H.)
appears below.
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73. (Icel. 1.) The Saga of St. Olaf.
Paper, ff. 544, cm. 3119.5, single columns, 26-29 lines. 68 quires,
of 8, with a fly-leaf at beginning and end. Paged 1-1086. Rulings on
rectos. Berlin Purchase no. 50. 1827.
Label: Olaf Hins Helga og Orkneyia Sangur (i.e., Olafs Hins Helga
og Orkneyia Saugur).
Contents: Olafs Saga Haralldzsonar Hins Helga Og Orkneyia
Tarla Saugur. E Codice Regio Flateyensi a Columna 310 usque ad 583
(f. iia). On ἢ. ia (the fly-leaf) is an Italian title: Saga Canti o Relazioni
Istoriche di Olaf Haraldsson detto Hins-Helga, e Canti de Iarli (Duchi)
delle Isole Oreadi. Alla Biblioteca Reale di Napoli, Paolo d’Ambrosio,
30 Maggio 1827—nomastico di 8. A. R. il Duca di Calabria.
1. The Oléfssaga and Sagas of the Jarls of the Orkney Islands,
(Olafs Saga Hins Helga og Orkneyia Iarla Saugur.) Incip., p. 1: Her
hefr vpp Sogu Olafs konungs Haralldzsunar. Ῥά er lidit var fra hegat-
buré uors herra Jesu Christi.—Explic., p. 1060: Orkneyinga Jorlum
en sua sem ver hofum sagt. (Cf. Flateyjarb6k, Christiania ed., II.
pp. 10-530.)
2. Appendices to the Oléfssaga (Vidbeetir vis Oléfs sogu hins helga)
[Haec quae sequuntur, pertinent ad Historiam Olavi Sancti, et extant in
Cod. Flat: post Historiam Haquini Senioris, Columnis 750-51-52-53-
ἃ 54]. Incip., p. 1061: bessir smdéir Articuli sem her eru saman.—
Explic., p. 1086, vid kgin edr nockurraillenda. (Cf. Christiania ed., III,
pp. 237-248.)
The manuscript is clearly written. The name Paolo d’Ambrosio is
stamped in red on f. iia.
Watermarks: on the last fly-leaf, P GRELOV; on the quires, some-
times A D S, sometimes G R surmounted by a crown, sometimes J
Honig & Zoon, most often an elaborate one, which appears also in no.
71, with the motto Pro Patria.
This manuscript of the Ol4fssaga was copied from the celebrated
Flateyjarb6k, one of the best of Icelandic manuscripts, which was written
in 1387-94. In the sixteenth century it was in the possession of a dis-
tinguished family on the Island of Flatey, west of Iceland, and probably
since 1656 has been preserved in the Royal Library at Copenhagen,
The Flateyjarb6k is described in the Katalog over de oldnorsk-islandske
HAndskrifter, i det store kongelige Bibliotek (Copenhagen, 1900) (no. 18.
Gl. Κρ]. sml. 1005, I-II, fol. Flateyjarb6k), pp. 10-16. The standard
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text of the Saga is the Christiania edition, 1860-68, in three volumes:
Flateyjarbék. En Samling af norske Konge-Sagaer med inskudte
mindre Fortellinger. The columns of the Copenhagen Flateyjarbék
were numbered in the seventeenth century, and to these numbers the
present manuscript refers.
The manuscript was once owned by Paolo d’Ambrosio, who seems to
have given it to the Royal (now the National) Library at Naples, per-
haps in honor of the Duke of Calabria.
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74. (Heb. 1.) Tracts on Domestic and Ceremonial Matters.
Parchment, ff. 140, cm. 13X10, usually single columns but some-
times 2 or 3, besides one or two in the margins; usually 13 lines, the
accompanying comment sometimes 21 to 40 lines. 19 quires, of 8,
except nos. 12, 19 (8), 17 (4), 18 (10). Rulings usually on both sides.
Hengstenberg. 1467.
Label: wanting. The pigskin binding, which is not the original
one, is in perfect condition, and has never had a label.
On the first fly-leaf a modern hand has written:
"8 “Ta dia ΟΡ M2 UBT pia NT Dw
ws nwa 2.22
Contents: 1. Sha‘arim. A series of 40 provisions as to meats, with
especial reference to weights and measures, ff. 1la-91b. Sha‘arim 1-5
are wanting. Incip.:
“Dn “ps Cah “Jax (Ca)qw cnsaw
—Enxplic.:
ΓΞ MMII MN..2sw ὉΠ MT
Pp ΤΕ Ra pa ta owe Ὁ
Jax ΝΘ. -wanwen 55 7
2. Rules (p°"), 45 in number, governing conjugal relations,
ff. 92a-127b. Incip.:
naw "Neva. M93 ἘΣ Mwaww (7)
—Explic., f. 125a:
wind PR wpa PR or
ὝΞ ovanbp wax pir xd “BION pinns pin
pes ons on ΟῚ ota mds ronan. ow owns
nwa Fan ὩΝῚ nw ἃ ora “wn Ind
pro wap? 121
A table of contents of this tract follows, ff. 1256-1276. Incip.:
ΠΟ TWX PIN
—Explie.: at
pron po PRES ὉΠ ANS ὙΤῸ
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3. A Tract on slaughtering, ff. 128a-140b. Incip.:
ΓΤ Ἵ Npop
—Explic.:
son wera
Since in Mishna, Seder 5 (ΘΠ), Tractate (M3072) 3, now
Por, such subjects are treated as in fragments 1 and 3 of this manu-
script, and the order of subjects there is (1) slaughtering, (2) clean
and unclean, (3) varia, it is quite possible that fragment 3 in the
manuscript is really an introduction to no. 1 (the Sha‘arim), a question
which a printed text of the ἈΠ “uj, if one exists, would decide.
—Kalonymus Ben Gershon is mentioned in the Jewish Encyclopedia
(s.v. ““Kalonymus”), as is a bibliography to be found in Michael,
Or ha-bayyim.
The paper fly-leaves bear watermarks which show that the present
binding is as late as 1814, and suggest its German origin; on one, after
other royal monograms, GR III Deutschlands Erretter und Bfefreier?].
On the other, Der 30. Maerz 181[4. The date is that of the surrender
of Paris to the allies. It is probable that this paper was manufactured
within a year of that date. F.1 has been neatly patched at top and
bottom with parchment, probably at the time of the rebinding. At
the top of f. la, P. v. Bohlen has been written and crossed out, at the
outer corner, and at the inner, Donum R. Iacub(?) Hamb. 1820. P. von
Bohlen, the orientalist (1796-1840), spent much of his early life at
Hamburg. He was professor at Kénigsberg, 1830-1840. The title and
date of the manuscript (October, 1465) are written in a modern hand
in pencil within the right-hand cover. Our date is derived from the
subscription on f. 125a.
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75. (Arab. 1.) The Quran, in Arabic.
Paper, ff. 70, supplemented in binding with 8 interleaves and 16
leaves at beginning and at end, ff. 110 in all. On the new leaves at
the beginning a modern hand has supplied the text of Sura 1:1—2:55,
probably from a printed text, leaving alternate leaves blank. Cm.
28X19.5, single columns, 21 lines. 7 quires of 10. Old University of
Chicago Library. University of Chicago accession 251137. Century
XVI?
Label: Coran MS.
Contents: The Quran, in Arabic, Suras 2:153b—12:45a.
The name John Hattersley (or -by?) is written on the recto of
the end-paper. Inside the front cover are book plates of W. L.
Andrews (three books, with monogram, and the name, in flourishes,
below); of the Old University of Chicago Library (no. 5081. Presented
by H. M. Thompson); together with the present book plate of the Uni-
versity, and a printed slip from a sales-catalogue: ‘2781 Koran, folio,
an early and well-written MS in coloured inks, in the African character,
188 pp.” Inside the last cover is a cipher pricemark, and “J. 8. and
Son,” in pencil. On the front-paper and fly-leaf, in pencil, 133.
Mss. Arabic Koran. bxz. 94. 188 pages. £1/9/. On f. la of the first
added quire, ‘‘Alcoran Pr” in pencil. The traceable owners thus seem
to have been John Hattersley, W. L. Andrews, J. S. and Son (dealers),
H. M. Thompson, and the Old University of Chicago. The total of
188 pp. includes the preliminary quire (16 ff.), and the interleaving
(8 ff.), which, with 70 ff. of the old manuscript, give 94 ff., 188 pp.
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76. Baxs, Antiquitates Graecae.
77.
78.
79.
Paper, ff. 182, em. 20.8X16.3.
Contents: Antiquitates Graecae. Prolegomena ff. 1-7; Pars Prima,
De Rebus Sacris, ff. 8-101; Pars Altera, Civilis, ff. 102-130. Verso
blank, except for occasional notes. Incip.: Statim ab initio hujus
institutionis.—Ezplic.: mercedem de publico accipiebant. A student’s
notes of lecture-dictations, now labeled Ch. Baki dicta in Antiqq.
Graec.—Jean (Jan) Bake, born at Leyden 1787, became professor of
Greek and Latin literature at the university there in 1815.
Borcuarp, Letter.
Paper, ff. 8, four, cm. 21.814.1, and four, em. 22.318. A letter
in German, signed Borchard, dated Berlin, April 21, 1869, dealing chiefly
with a problem in mathematics. The four larger leaves are filled with
mathematical calculations. The address is missing. Berlin Purchase
no. 53: “6. W. Borchardt, Letter to Baltzer, relating to the determin-
ants, with Appendix by Kronecker... . . » (Berlin list). Four
sheets of calculations, beginning Kronecker Det. fiir Crelle. J. 71.,
accompany the letter.
Buppevs, De Statu Ecclesiae Lutheranae praesertim de motibus
Pietisticis ab A(nn)o 1688-1714.
Paper, ff. 148, cm. 20.5X16.5, single columns, 22-25 lines, pages
numbered 1-296, nos. 124, 125, 204 being repeated, and nos. 181, 200,
288 omitted. 39 quires of 4, except 20th, 21st, 34th, and 35th (2). In-
complete, wanting concluding quire or quires. Hengstenberg. Century
XVIII.
Contents: De Statu Ecclesiae Lutheranae praesertim de motibus
Pietisticis ab Anno 1688-1714. Incip.: Das Vornehmste also.—FEzplic.
alles zu verwerfen und daher entstund. Evidently the lectures of Bud-
deus.
FreRNaN CABALLERO (CECILIA BOHL DE Fazer), Letiers to M.
Antoine de Latour.
Paper, 421 letters (originals), in Spanish, dating 1856-1876. They
are of interest for the literary and political comments which they com-
prise. We owe this note of them to the courtesy of Miss Elizabeth
Wallace, who has undertaken their investigation.
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80. De Die Crucifizionis.
Paper, ff. 8, cm. 20.7X17.5, paged 33-47; pp. 1-32 missing. Early
XIX century.
Incip.: apud Marcum omnis sententiae vis ponitur in bis illud.—
Explic.: Nos vero nune verbis finiamus: Loquere Domine, servus tuus
audit.—No label. The contention is that Christ held the passover
supper on the night of the 14th of Nisan, and was put to death on the
15th, p. 42.
81. Dissertation sur le Commerce des Anciens.
Paper, ff. 34, cm. 19.7X15.6, in one quire, one column, unruled,
the margin on the inner side of the page. Berlin Purchase no. 54.
Century XIX.
Title, as above, f. la. Incip.: on peut appeller le commerce une
Sorte de communication que les hommes forment entre eux.—Ezplic.:
de la plus grande partie des ouvrages que l’on a ecrit sur cette matiére.
—FIN. At the end 6 ff. are left blank.
82. J. GE, Over de Brieven van Tzetzes.
Paper, ff. 6, in 3 quires of 2 each, another leaf being folded about the
whole for a cover, single columns of 27 lines; pp. 1, 5, and 8 numbered.
On the first recto of the covering leaf is the title: Over de Brieven
van Tzetzes. Incip., f. la: De Chiliaden van Joannes Tzetzes.
—Erxplic., f. 6b: zoodat de uitgaaf onder bescherming van det Instituut
geschie dde. J. Geel. 5. Oct. 1826.—This little treatise, unbound, ac-
companies the manuscript of the Tzetzes letters, no. 56.
83. GzorGE B. Ipn, Record of Marriages solemnized in Springfield,
Mass., 1852-72.
Paper, ff. 42, em. 29X 21.5; 7 quires of 12, single columns.
84. Le JEUNE-DIRICHLET, Theorie der Zahlen.
Paper, ff. 72+-7+6, cm. 21.216.8. Berlin, Sommersemester, 1841.
Contents: Notes of Wm. Gallenkamp, stud. math., on Theorie der
Zahlen nach Prof. Le Jeune-Dirichlet. 7 loose leaves with trimmed
edges, in the rear, are inscribed “Zahlentheorie.” 6 other loose leaves,
with untrimmed edges, bear the superscription: “Theorie der complexen
Zahlen Auszug aus dem Dirichletschen Vortrag vom Sommers. 1842
(21 Mai 1843). The bound notes have page numbering as far as the
writing goes. 10 ff. in the back are left blank. The seven loose ff.
on the ‘‘Zahlentheorie” have a folio numbering.
85. Le Jeune-Diricu et, Ueber bestimmte Integrale.
Paper, ff. 138, cm. 21.2X17.5. Berlin, Wintersemester, 1841-1842.
Contents: Notes of Wm. Gallenkamp, stud. math., Ueber bestimmte
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86.
87.
88.
89.
Integrale nach Prof. Lejeune-Dirichlet, ff. 1-98; on Anwendung der
Lehre von den bestimmten Integralen. Lejeune-Dirichlet, publice,
f. 100-122; Anhang. Darstellung ganz willkurlicher Funktionen der
Sinus und Cosinusreihen, von Lejeune-Dirichlet (aus Dove’s Repertorium
fir Physik, Bd. 1, 1837, 123-138). Loose in the rear of the volume
is a printed Verzeichniss der in Lejeune-Dirichlet’s Werke aufzuneh-
menden Arbeiten und Notizen.
Le JeuNneE-Diricauet, Integration der partiellen Differential-
gletchungen, etc.
Paper, ff. 16, em. 20.1X16.1. Berlin, Wintersemester, 1840-41.
Contents: Notes of Wm. Gallenkamp on Integration der partiellen
Differentialgleichungen und deren Anwendung auf Physik nach Prof.
Dr. Lejeune-Dirichlet.
J. VAN LENNEP, Leiter.
Paper, 1 f., cm. 19.5X23.5, 24 lines.
Contents: Letter relating to ‘Heer Geel” and his project of pub-
lishing the Tzetzes letters, signed D. J. van Lennep. Without date.
Probably 1826-1830. Geel’s treatise is dated September, 1826, and
this letter was probably written soon after; cf. nos. 56, 82.
Letters, with Odyssey scholia.
Paper, ff. 2 (one sheet, cm. 34.5X 20.5, folded once).
Contents: A letter in German, quoting two scholia in Greek on
Homer, Odyssey, a, 1 and 371 respectively. Incip.: Ich schicke Ihnen
hier eine Dissertation damit Sie sehen ob Sie sie bei Ihrer pythago-
rdischen Untersuchung brauchen Kénnen.—Explic.: ἐμμελῶς (ἐμμελοῦς
emend. Mai.) dppovias——There is no heading nor subscription.—The
address, which corresponds to the letter in hand and ink, is on the lower
half of f. 20; written at right angles to the direction of the lines of the
letter, and reads: E.(?). Schleiermachert Nebst 1 Buch.—A note in
another hand was written on the upper half of f. 2a, the writing being
at right angles to that of the former letter, as follows: Ich soll Ihnen
von Géschen sagen dasz das EHinliegende die griechische Probeschrift
sey von welcher Sie wiiszten. (Signed) Catrina Géschen.—The names,
carelessly written, are not altogether certain. The address correspond-
ing to this note is on the lower half of the original f. 1b, reading: Herrn
Professor [[G]] Buttmann.
MarueInecke, Encyclopédie; NeranpeR, Anthropologie und
Christologie.
Paper, ff. 172, cm. 23.119, one column of varying size and number
of lines. Berlin, 1822-23.
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90.
91.
92.
93.
Contents: Encyclopédie der theolog. Wissenschaften nach dem
Vortrage des Prof. Dr. Marheinecke .... von August Friedrich
Heese. Berlin im Wintersemester 1853 ... . Anthropologie und
Christologie nach dem Vortrage des Prof. Dr. Neander.—Mar-
heinecke’s Encyclopaidie occupies ff. 1-89; Neander’s Anthropologie
und Christologie, ff. 92-172.
P. MULLENHOF(?), Glossarium Germanicum.
Paper, ff. 57, cm. 20.617, 2 columns, no rulings. Berlin Pur-
chase no. ὅθ. 1800-1850.
Contents: f. la, ‘Glossarium German.” With a table of contents:
(1) Glossarium Ulfilanum; (2) Lexicon Alamannicum saec. XII; (8)
Rhabani Mauri glossae de partib. humani corp.; (4) Lexicon Runicum
Magni Olavi et Ol. Wormii; (5) Ol. Wormii lexicon in Biarkamal;
(6) Lexicon Teutonicum; (7) Idioticon Ravensbergense. On the verso
is a small (incomplete?) Index glossarum veterum. Swedish gram~
matical material is added on f. 56. The Berlin list says that these
glossaries are P. Miillenhof’s.
J. L. Nrerstrasz, Jr., Letter.
Paper, f. 1, cm. 21.1 20.7, 18 lines.
Contents: A letter, in Dutch, of J. L. Nierstrasz, Jr., the Dutch
poet, dated Rotterdam, April 11, 1823. The address is missing.—
In the same folder with the letter is a copper plate portrait of J. L.
Nierstrass, Jr. The inscription on the folder makes its contents a part
(no. 3135) of a collection of autograph letters, etc., ‘“délaissés par feu
Mr. J. Baart de la Faille,” etc., sold at public auction November 3,
1868, by G. Theod. Bom, dealer in antiquities at Amsterdam.
PEERLKAMP, Historia Universalis, vol. 2. Lecture notes.
Paper, ff. 192, em. 20.5X16.2. Versos usually blank. Leyden,
1822-49.
Contents: Historia Universalis a divisione regni Carolingici ad
hane memoriam a P. Hofman Peerlkamp Philos: Theor: et literarum
humaniorum Prof: Lugduni Batavorum. Incip.: Praefatio. Post-
quam in libros absolvimus, f. la.—Index Capitum, ff. 188a-189b.—
Peerlkamp (1786-1865) was professor at Leyden 1822-1849. These
are probably a student’s notes of his lecture dictations.
SCHIRMER, SCHEIBEL, BERNSTEIN, etc., Lecture-notes.
Paper, ff. 397, em. 19.8X16.2 (21.217), one column of varying
size and number of lines. 1821-1823.
Label: Schirmers Leben Jesu und Bild des wahren Theologen,
Scheibels Jiid. Archéologie u. Jesaias: Passow, Virgilius bucolica.
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94.
95.
96.
97.
Contents: Lecture-notes of Chr. Fr. Gottl. Singer ἃ. G. 6. B.; at
Breslau? from the lectures of Schirmer, Scheibel, Bernstein, Dereser,
v. d. Hagen, and Steffens, on biblical and literary subjects.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL, Grdbersymbolik.
Paper, ff. 202, cm. 23.5X18.5. Berlin Collection no. 51. Versos
usually blank. Two printed plates (from Vaterl. Archiv. II) inserted
as illustrations with f. 92; another (Der Wildstein) with f. 98. The
manuscript is probably in the hand of Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-
1829). Early XIX century.
Papers relating to the Scottish Peerage.
Paper, ff. 117, in 12 packets, 1 to 16 ff. each, cm. 2520.2. In-
scribed sometimes in pages, sometimes lengthwise, as foolscap, in two or
three modern hands. Once belonging to the Earl of Crawford and
Balcarres, who seems to have written most of them, and collected the
rest. Once the property of Carl Hopf, whose label (Bibliotheca Caroli
Hopfi, no. 1073, etc.) is attached to most of them.
Label: Scottish Peerage by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres.
Contents: Genealogical lists and pedigrees of certain noble Scottish
families: Ancient kings of Scotland, ff. 16; Stewarts descended from
Robert, Duke of Albany, ff. 2; Douglas and Angus, ff.5; De Candela
de Anstruther, ff. 4, etc. References to Skene’s work on the Highlanders
of Scotland, and Douglas’ Peerage and Baronage of Scotland indicate
the sources used.
Supplemente zu Noesselts Anweisung zu theolog. Biichertiteln 3.
Paper, several hundred ff., cm. 20.517, most of them blank, but
containing here and there notes on books and reviews. Written soon
after 1800.
Contents: Supplemente zu Dr. Joh. Aug. Noesselt’s Anweisung
zur Kenntniss der besten allgemeinern Buecher in allen Theilen der
Theologie. 4*¢ verb. u. 5. vermehrte Auflage, Leipzig, 1800.
FRIEDRICH VATER, ET AL., Notes, Lectures and Essays on Greek
Interature.
Paper, ff. 331, of various sizes, besides loose miscellaneous letters.
Berlin Purchase no. 58. 1833-49.
Contents: Curae Criticae in Scholia Vaticana ad Euripidis Rhesum:
Berolini iii. Calend. Jul. MDCCCXXXIV. Auctore Friderico Vatero,
Regimontano, ff. 22, cm. 35.2X22.—Vater, De duplice Hippolyti
Euripidei recensione, ff. 14, cm. 17.522, dated November 1834;
in an earlier draft, ff. 4. Vater, Miscellanea Critica, ff. 36, em. 1822;
and ff. 9, cm. 26.6X21.—Vater, De Isocratis qui fertur Epistolis,
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98.
various parts and drafts, ff. 42, em. 17.5X21.5.—Collectanea Varia;
ff. 195, of all sizes. Loose notes and scattered papers, for the most
part by Vater and on classical subjects. The last 30 of these, in fools-
cap sizes, are from another hand.—Mythologia Graeca. Lectiones ord.
professoris Vateri. Pertinent stud. Izaaco Popoff. II. 1849 anni 4 Novemb.
Kazani. Ff. 28,cm.17.5X22. A student’s lecture-notes.
Peter WeEssELING, Dictata ad Suetonium.
Paper, 340 ff., cm. 20.7X16.4, in 85 quires of 4, single columns,
33-40 lines. Versos usually blank. Utrecht, 1746.
Contents: Peter Wesseling, Lectures on Suetonius, Lives of the
Caesars: Augustus, ch. 25.—Otho, ch. 12. On the fly-leaf, a: Viri
Celeberrimi Petri Wesselingii J. U. D. Juris Naturae publicique,
nec non Historiarum, Eloquentiae, Linguaeque Graecae in Alma Trajec-
tina Professoris Dictata Ad Suetonium Altero Semestri Anno 1746.
mense Jan. G.R. Probably the notes taken by a student at Utrecht,
in 1746.
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99. Regulae Grammaticae et Rhetoricae.—Ovipius, De Remedio Amoris.
Paper, ff. 155, em. 2921.5, in quires usually of 10; single columns,
32-36 lines; in the De Remedio, 25 lines. Quire signatures usually set in a
vignette. Elaborately written in colors, with elegant capitals. Berlin
Purchase nos. 16, 15. Century XIV-XV.
Label: Gram. Rhet. Inc. Auth. Ovidii De Arte Amandi. Codex Cartac.
The book is bound like Diodorus (no. 14) and has on the covers the same
arms, apparently those of Cardinal Braschi (afterward Pius VI). Like nos.
1, 5, 11, ete., it has the rectangular label numbered in roman, and over it
the oval label which appears on nos. 2, 6, 12, etc.
Contents: I. Grammatical and Rhetorical Treatises, ff. 1-145. II.
Ovidius, De Remedio Amoris, ff. 146-155.
I. 1. Regulae Grammaticae (first 11 ff. wanting), ff. 1a-107b. Incip.:
Tractaturi de verbis inpersonalibus. Above, In individue trinitatis nomine
amen.
2. Regulae Rhetoricae, ff. 108a-119a. JIncip.: Quoniam facultas reto-
rice.
3. Tractatus Epistolarum, ff. 119a-133b. Incip.: Quoniam Dictamen
tripliciter dividitur.
4. Grammatical summaries and paradigms, ff. 134a-145b. Incip.:
Quot sint artes liberales. Artes liberales sunt septem.—Hzplic.: Et hec de
Verbis Personalibus et Inpersonalibus dicta Sufficiant. Deo gracias Amen.
II. Ovidius, De Remedio Amoris, 1-472, ff. 146a-155b. The text is
introduced by a long note in the hand which wrote the scholia: Incipit liber
de remedio amoris. In principio huius libri—The De Remedio Amoris
follows. Incip.: [Llegerat huius amor titulum nomenque libelli—Exzplic.:
Quam posscam reddi calcas tutus ope accellis. Incomplete.—The latter
part has been largely retraced.
APPENDIX IT
The Berlin Purchase included among its manuscripts three letters
purporting to have been written by Raphael. The great interest and value
of these letters, if genuine, led us to examine somewhat closely into their
authenticity, and although we have been compelled to condemn them as
modern imitations, and so to exclude them from our list, it seems worth
while to describe and print them as instructive examples of skilful manu-
script imitation, and because the grounds of our decision may be of interest.
The Berlin List, no. 60, says of them: Sanzio, Raffaele, the famous painter.
Three original autograph letters, 1515-1516.
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It must be remembered that there are in existence but five letters of
Raphael of acknowledged authenticity: those to Simone Ciarla, to Domenico
di Paris Alfani, and to Francesco Francia, written in 1508; to Simone Ciarla,
written in 1514, and to Baldassare Castiglione, written probably in 1515.
The temptation to forge Raphael letters would thus be strong, and may have
been given a special direction forty years ago by the identification by Alfred
de Reumont,! of the “‘Canossa Madonna’’ described by Vasari, and long
supposed to be lost, with the Madonna of the Pearl (La Perla) in the Prado
Museum at Madrid. It-is to that picture that these letters, whether gen-
uine or not, clearly relate. The ‘“‘Canossa Madonna” is described by
Vasari in his sketch of Raphael, as follows:
To Verona Raphael sent a large picture of no less excellence, for the Count
of Canossa. The subject is the Nativity of Our Lord, admirably treated,
the daybreak in particular, as here portrayed, has been highly commended,
and the same may be said of the figure of Sa’ Anna and indeed of the whole
work, which one could not extol more effectually than by the simple asser-
tion, that it is by the hand of Raphael da Urbino. The Counts hold this
picture in the highest estimation, as it well deserves; very great sums have
been offered to them for it by different princes, but they have never been
prevailed upon to part with it—Vasari, Lives of the Painters, III, 178
(Blashfield-Hopkins ed.).
It will be seen that the first of the following letters apologizes for
the artist’s delay in completing the picture; the second seeks instructions as
to forwarding it to Verona, and the third explains that Count Gerolamo di
Canossa is to take it thither.
1. RapHaEtto Sanzio(?). Letter to Lodovico di Canossa, Bishop of
Bayeux.
Paper, f. 1, em. 31.5X19.3, folded to a size cm. 6X11.7. The paper
is old and fine, but has the look of a fly-leaf from an old book. The hand
is much like Raphael’s and is identical with that of Letter 2, but is not quite
that of Letter 3. The ink is the same as that used in Letter 2, showing a
slightly pinkish tinge, unlike the yellow-brown to which sixteenth-century
inks usually fade. The sheet has been badly spotted by damp at top and
bottom, and where the ink has been washed out, traces of pencil marks
appear under the letters. Dated August 7, 1515.
Il(ustrissi)mo Monsignor Vescovo
Ricevo in questo punto una letera da mio carissimo zio Simone de Batisto
da Urbino per quale ho inteso come[fs.]] V(uostra) R(everenza) aspeta con
ansieta la Tavola
de la madonna certo li so ubligatissimo quanto che a omo che viva di essere
stimato degno di servirla che ne sento molto onore. Io prego compatirmi
e perdonarmi la dilazione e la lunghezza de lo mio operato che per le gravi
ocupazioni come sa non ho potuto prima satisfare In per altro non sono
1 Jahrbiicher fiir Kunstwissenschaft, II (1869), 250 ff.
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finora lontano da fare fine che presto non le possa dare avviso. V.1la tavola
non faro pregio staro se vuole che vada a stima e come suo antico
servitore mi aricomando li vii agosto. M.D.XV
V(uostro) raphaello sanzio dipintore
in Roma
Verso:
Al I (ustrissi)mo Monsignor
Vescovo di Bajus
M(esser) conte Lodovico di
Canossa
In Parigi
In 1. 8, Im has perhaps been erased. In 1.9, V. suggests Vuostra, but
perhaps means Verso, ie., “regarding.”
The date is unfortunately somewhat obscured by damp. It seems to be
MDXY\V, but might possibly be read MDXIV or MDXVI. But the Diario
of Marino Sanuto, the journal of a privileged functionary of the papal
court, reports that Renato di Prié, who preceded Canossa in the bishopric
of Bayeux, died on August 14, 1516. Either reading of the date is
thus at variance with the facts as to the succession of Lodovico to the
bishopric of Bayeux, for on August 7, 1516, Renato was still alive. A
further objection to the genuineness of the letter lies in the extent to which
its language resembles that of the Simone, Francia, and Castiglione letters
published by Passavant, which is certainly closer than we should expect.
Batisto is a mistake for Batista, and aricomando betrays another over-
sight. On the whole this letter seems quite clearly spurious.
2. RapHaELLo Sanzio(?). Letter to Count Galeasso di Canossa.
Paper, f. 1., em. 80.19.8. Folded to a size cm. 6X13. The paper
is much as in the preceding, but with a different water mark—three large
capital letters triangularly set. The hand and ink are as in Letter 1. The
sheet looks like an old fly-leaf. Dated April 30, 1516.
Signor Conte
Monsignor Lodovico marchese di Canossa Vescovo di Bajus mi ha scritto
dalla francia che la tavola della madona laqualle si trova
da mia mano conpinta voglia spedirla a vostra Signoria in
Verona. inpertanto credo aura ricevuto notizia da monsignor
V(escov)o come anche mi scrisse che fara avviso ora aspetto la
determinazione di V(uostra) S(ignoria) a cui mi aricomando. li xxx aprile
M.D.XVI.
Vu(ostro) raphaello sanzio dipintore
in Roma
Verso:
Al Ill(ustrissi)mo S(ignor) M(esser) Conte
Galeasso di Canossa
In Verona
3. RapHaELLo Sanzio(?), Letter to Count Galeasso di Canossa.
Paper, f. 1, em. 28.8X20.5. Carefully folded to a size of cm. 10.7X
6.3, so as to constitute its own envelope, and addressed. The paper is old
and fine, but has the appearance of having been a fly-leaf torn from an old
folio. The sheet has been patched with paper strips pasted on the verso.
The hand is very neat, and much resembles that of Raphael as shown in
facsimiles of his writing, e.g., the incomplete sonnet on a Vienna sketch for
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the “Disputa”’ (Knackfuss, Raffael, p. 63), and a letter of less certain
authenticity reproduced by Deschamps in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, I
(1859), p. 109. It is much like the facsimile given by Pini, in La Scrittura
di Artisti Italiani. It is less like the hand of the Raphael sonnet in the
British Museum, with which Mr. Kenyon has very kindly compared a
photograph for us, yet not hopelessly unlike even that. The fly-leaf char-
acter of the sheet, however, the change of non to no, and the attempted
correction of dipitore to dipintore in the signature, together with the evident
spuriousness of the two letters which accompany this one, make strongly
against its genuineness. Dated October 23, 1516.
Til(ustrissi)mo S(ignor) M(esser) conte di Canossa
Jo ho avuta gran ventura di parlare con lo Iil(ustrissi)mo S(ignor) M(esser)
abbate conte Gerolamo
di Canossa che con tuta conpiacenza onoro di sua persona la mia Casa
e vide la Tavola che si trova finita come feci saputo da una mia scrita
mostro molta sodisfazione per la tanta sua laude se io non sapesi qual nobile
persona, che e mi crederei per adulato ma essa Tavola e come le mie forze
sepe fare non quanto al mio giudizio desiderava ma, fu certo la sua bonta
alla sua partenza da Roma ha deciso portarla con esso 1|’Illu(strissi)mo
S(ignor) abb(at)e e
pensare per fino a Verona e io stesso faro nel modo miliore che nel Viagio
non abia dano. con la riceputa de lo prezio avuto unita a quattre disegno
di mia mano. la Pregio di far li atti di mia servitu in ocorenza, col Ill(ustrissi)
(mo) S(ignor) M(esser)
conte Mons(igno)r Ve(sco)vo di Baius domandando perdonanza de ogni mia
mancamento
e sempre obligatissimo mi comandi li xxiii de viiibre M.D.XVI
Vuostro raphaello dipitore
in Roma
Verso:
Al Ill(ustrissi)mo S(ignor) M(esser) Conte
Galeasso di Canossa
In Verona
In the date other letters (XX?) were written after M and then erased.
In the signature dipitore was probably written, which the writer then sought
to change to dipintore.
The watermark is not clear. It is most like an Italian type assigned
by Bricquet to the fifteenth century (no. 3726, Palermo 1476), though not
identical with it.
Passavant published the known letters of Raphael in his Life of Raphael
in 1835; an account of the Canossa family, particularly of its leading figure
Lodovico, appeared in Verona in 1845; de Reumont identified the Canossa
Madonna with the Pearl at Madrid in 1869, and in 1869-71 Pini began his
publication of La Scrittura di Artisti Italiani, Sec. XIV-XVII—a series of
facsimiles of handwriting. Acquaintance with these materials would fairly
equip a skilful imitator of the antique for the turning out of such Raphael
letters. There is more to be said for Letter 3 than for the others, yet the
ag we have mentioned tend to condemn this letter along with the
others.
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INDEX
MS No. MS No.
Aegidius . 22 Calderinus 11
Alafrancus de Oriano 8 Camillus Brunellus ᾿ 15
Alberti. 1 Carthusiensis Conventus Erffordi 16, 25
Albertus Magnus . 2 Choricius Sophistes 55
Albertus Theotonicus ‘(Teutonicus 2) 3 Clodius, Sextus 12
Alexander VI 58 Columna, Ascanius 13
Alexius, St... 61 Combefius, Io. Fr. 34
Amarcius Gallus. 4 Correa, Alexo Salgado 64
Ambrosio, Paolo d’ 73 Cosimo de’ Medici 5,15
Ambrosius Camaldulensis 15 Crawford and Balcarres, Earl of, 95
American Bible Union . 24
Amos. 24 Diodorus Siculus 14
Andreas de Ysernia 41 Diogenes Laertius 15
Angelus de Arecio 8
Angelus de Castillono 6. Erfurt 16, 25
Angelus de Merianis 6 Eusebius 17,18
Angelus de Perusio 6 Evangelia Graeca 46
Anjou documents 41. Evangeliorum Harmonia 19
Antonius, St. . 45
᾿εδὶκῦν, τὸ poise ὁ Feltrius, Horatius 20
: ‘ Fides Caietana 21
Aristoteles 5,10 Ξ
Athanasius. 45 ἘΠ ΟΘΌΪΘῚ Ἡ τὰ
‘Augustinus 42 Florius, Ioannes 7
‘Anverroes 3 Franciscus de Altergotis 6
Franciscus Martin. 9
Franciscus de Ramporibus 6
Sara JE.. 47 48, Ps Franciscus Stea de Neapoli 40
Baldus de Perusio . 6
Baptista de Malatis 35 Gallenkamp, W. . 84, 85, 86
Baronius, Caesar . 12 Georgius Hamartolus 47
Bartholus de Saxoferrato 6 Girardus Senensis . 22
Basilius Magnus . 45 Glycas, Michael 48,49
Bellus Ser Angeli de Callio 32 Gregorio, S. : 59
Benedictus de Perusio 8 _Gregorius Ariminensis 22
Benedictus ΧΙ. 7 Gregorius Florellius 45, 53
Bernardus Clarevalenis 9 Gregorius Nazianzenus 52, 53
Bernstein 93 Guarinus Veronensis 35
Bible: II Kings . 38 Guido de Monte Rotherii 23
Gospels 19, 46 Gulielmus de Pernuo 41
Epistles Ε 50
Blasius, Angelus 57 Hebrew Tracts 74
Blasius de Parma 10 Heliogabalus . 32
Boccaccio 57 Hengstenberg 19, 25, 44, 68, 74
Bohlen, P. von 74 Herennius . 22
Boivinus F 51 Hieronymus 17, 24, 25
Boschi 7 Honofrius de Perusio 6
Brandolini. 62 Honorius IV 41
Breviario de Amor 63 Hopf, Carl 72, 95
Bulls, Papal . A 7,41 Horatius 27
Buttmann : 88 Hours, Book of 26
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MS No MS No.
Iacobus de Belviso 6 Philip II 64
Iacobus Bructicarius 6 Philip III eer 12
Interdicto, De " ᾿ 23 Philosophorum Errores 22
Iohanes Caminus (?) 19 Vitae 15
Iohannes de Casali 6 Pius VI 14, 47, 48, 49, 65, 99
Tohannes de Lignano 6 Plutarch - 35
Isaiah. 25 Poggius 14, 35
Isidorus Hispalensis ν 28 ~=Proclus 54
Tuvenal 29 Procopius ‘ 55
Prosper of Aquitaine 17
Kalonymus 74
Quran 75
Land leases 71
Laurentius de Pensauro 32 Raho, Antonius de, 37, 40
Lectionarium 50 Raimundus, Valentiae episcopus 23
Lentulus, epistola . 22 Rammelsberg ὅ ‘ 68
Leo Magnus 30 Rancé, de 65
Leonardus Aretinus 12, 31, 32, 35 Razzi, Serafino 62
Liptrott, John 69 Receptarium de Medicinis 36
Longobardae Legis, Extr. de Casibus 6 Riccardus, Celius 10
Lucanus 33 Robertus Anglicus 3
Rohis, Iacobus de 39
Mabillon 65 Rubricae 8, 84,87, 39, 40
Maria di N: argarado 19 Rufinus ᾿ 18
Marracius 21 Rufus, Sextus 12
Martial 11
Mathesius 68 Saga of St. Olaf - 4
Medicinis, Receptarium de . 36 Savonarola 58, 62
Messala, M. 12 Scheibel, Lecture Notes 93
Modena 23 Schleiermacher Ν 88
Sebastianus Neapolitanus 41
Narrative of ὦ Dutch Embassy to Segreti Antichi 36
Morroco 72 Seneca, Pseudo- 42
Neander 89 Servetus 43
Nicephorus Gregoras . 61 Spata, Iohannes ᾿ 40
Nicetas Serronius . 52, 53 Spence, Joseph 70
Nicholas V 12,14
Nicholo da Osino 23 Thomas de Argentina . 22
Nonnus 53 Thomas de Vicentiis de Fano 31
Torley, J. H. foe ot τὶ 72
Olaf, St. . ‘ 73 Tournon, Cardinal di . 60
Ossunae dux ¥ 20 Tzetzes, Ioannes 56, 82
Ovidius 99
Vincencius .. . de Neapoli 40
Paganinus de Sala 6 Vincentius Paganus 34
Passioneo, Cardinal 7
Pauly : 66 Wachter, J. G. 44
Petrus de Fundis Fi 37
Petrus de Perusio . 6 Zalycos, G. G. 3 ἔξ . 56
Petrus Veronensis 34 Zygmunt, Weclewski F 29
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